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Goodness, I think I bought this copy as long ago as fifth or sixth form. £4.25 new, it says on the back.
Elaine Showalter's introduction was one of the things, probably the main thing, that put me off reading it for so long - and academic introductions nearly always get me interested in a book. Her interpretation makes it sound like a dull read that mostly recounts bad things were for women then, something I'd rather have seen dealt with in factual history than a novel. (And she has too much use ...more
Elaine Showalter's introduction was one of the things, probably the main thing, that put me off reading it for so long - and academic introductions nearly always get me interested in a book. Her interpretation makes it sound like a dull read that mostly recounts bad things were for women then, something I'd rather have seen dealt with in factual history than a novel. (And she has too much use ...more
«Clarissa poseía un corazón puro; eso era fundamental. Peter la catalogaría de sentimental. Y tendría razón. Porque había llegado a comprender que lo único que merecía la pena decir era lo que uno sentía. La listeza era una tontería. Se tenía que decir sencillamente lo que se sentía.»
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Peter Walsh, if you think it's o.k. to follow a random young woman around the city while you're playing with the knife in your pocket, I'm telling you it's not, you creep.
It took me about 50 pages getting used to Virginia Woolf's style of writing. In that time I wanted to put the book down several times never to pick it up again. In the end I'm glad I didn't. ...more
It took me about 50 pages getting used to Virginia Woolf's style of writing. In that time I wanted to put the book down several times never to pick it up again. In the end I'm glad I didn't. ...more
A lovely writing style and melodramatic. I can somehow see Greta Garbo playing as Mrs. Dalloway.
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