{"product_id":"genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read-paperback","title":"Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of its existence, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper's defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad: all are here, in anonymously published pieces, in which may be glimpsed the thinking behind Woolf's works of fiction and the enquiring, feminist spirit of \u003cem\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is Woolf the critical essayist, offering, at one moment, a playful hypothesis and, at another, a judgement laid down with the authority of a twentieth-century Dr Johnson. Here is Woolf working out precisely what's great about Hardy, and how Elizabeth Barrett Browning made books a \"substitute for living\" because she was \"forbidden to scamper on the grass\". Above all, here is Virginia Woolf the reader, whose enthusiasm for great literature remains palpable and inspirational today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of the world's great writers. Born Virginia Stephen, she became a professional writer in 1900, and began writing for the TLS a few years later. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf; they founded the Hogarth Press five years later. Her novels include \u003cem\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/em\u003e (1925), \u003cem\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e (1927) and The Waves (1931), but she is also celebrated as the author of short stories and non-fiction, including the feminist essays \u003cem\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/em\u003e (1929) and \u003cem\u003eThree Guineas\u003c\/em\u003e (1938).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768453071136,"sku":"9780008361884","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/de25fb8cccabbab837f9d1c9f048eef9.webp?v=1780330096","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}