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Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This new selection of essays by Oscar Wilde show-cases the varied aspects of his genius. For Pearson, the biographer, the essays and dialogues illustrate the many faces of Wilde's extraordinary character: wit, romancer, talker, lecturer, humanist and scholar. The ideas expressed remain remarkably releva ...Show more
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf; Stella McNichol (Editor); Gillian Beer (Introduction by, Notes by)
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Category: Classics
Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War.Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores h ...Show more
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction
Virginia Woolf's last novel, in equal parts a triumphant celebration and witty mockery of 'Englishness', "Between the Acts" is edited by Stella McNichol, with an introduction and notes by Gillian Beer in "Penguin Modern Classics". Outwardly a novel about life in a country house in whose grounds there is ...Show more
Essays Volume 5 by Woolf Virginia
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Fiction was the core of Virginia Woolf's work. But she took her essay writing very seriously, spending a great deal of time on each essay and finding they provided a refreshing diversion from fiction. Her essays informed her fiction, and vice versa; this volume shows her thinking about the possibility o ...Show more
Essays on the Self by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Classic Collection
Woolf's fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who 'seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended'. He is, Woolf adds,so complex, so eccentric, that we 'become dazed in the labyrinth ...Show more
Flush by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Virginia Woolf's humorous biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel is charming yet also radical. A work of sensuous imagination, it opens up a range of questions about class, society, and cultural attitudes which are woven throughout the whole of Woolf's writing. We are delighted to publish th ...Show more
Flush by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Li ...Show more
Flush : Little Black Classic by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Li ...Show more
Genius and Ink - Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Fors ...Show more
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...Show more
Hyde Park Gate News by Virginia Woolf
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Hesperus Classics
As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They called the paper 'Hyde Park Gate News', and the original manuscripts are published here for the first time. Ing ...Show more