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The Diary, Vol. 2: 1920-1924
The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one remarkable woman" (Christian Science Monitor). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
September 17th 1980
by Harvest Books
(first published 1978)
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I ran into this 5-volume book set in a second-hand bookstore in Brisbane in November, 2002 after my visit to Dr. Walpola, a lady doctor as appointed at a hospital at Woolloomgabba a bit far away from the Lodge I was staying in Indooroopilly. I had to go there by bus from the Lodge to the City, then to the hospital(quite convenient but a bit costly) since the doctors in a BKK hospital wanted to make sure my health was all right and thus able to proceed with my ongoing part-time PhD candidature at...more
Oh, Aunt Virginia. I can't believe that anyone's unrevised writings have such bell-like clarity! Also, she can be very funny. She is unabashedly elitist, but even that can be entertaining in its own way.
The most interesting passages are her descriptions of her writerly contemporaries: her impressions of T.S. Eliot, the "Ulysses" manuscript, and her rivalry with/admiration of Katherine Mansfield are priceless.
Here is one example (from Wed., 16 Aug. 1922):
"I should be reading Ulysses, & fabr...more
The most interesting passages are her descriptions of her writerly contemporaries: her impressions of T.S. Eliot, the "Ulysses" manuscript, and her rivalry with/admiration of Katherine Mansfield are priceless.
Here is one example (from Wed., 16 Aug. 1922):
"I should be reading Ulysses, & fabr...more
A must read for the serious Woolf fan.
Jan 04, 2008
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Summers at Joan's. Ice tea and the pool table on the screened porch. Old black and white movies on the upstairs tv. We were smitten by Virginia and her world; Larchmont girls imagining ourselves walking the gardens, Vanessa and Virginia, brilliant, creative and unique. As if.
قسمت هایی از این کتاب در چند شماره ی مجله ی "هفت" و با ترجمه ی اسلامی منتشر شده است.
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(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length es...more
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During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length es...more
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