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A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

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Jan 19, 2018 Bonnie Brandt rated it it was amazing

“ Men who have no apparent qualifications save that they are not women”

“Indeed I would venture to guess that a Anon-who wrote so many poems without signing them was often a woman”

I loved this. Thick intellectual sarcasm from 100 years ago. SIGN ME UP!!

This is hilarious. I tried to read Woolf one other time and it made no sense to me whatsoever. I’m so glad that I tried this one. I would have loved to see her give one of these lectures. The tone would have made it even better.

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Aug 01, 2022 caroline rated it liked it

I'm an experimental essay fan, and even then this was a little tedious to get through. Partly due to sentence structure, partly to the extreme amount of reference to titles and authors made.
I didn't agree with everything in here (not that I usually open books written nearly 100 years ago expecting to fully agree) but she still had some good and interesting insights. Part of me thinks it feels wrong judging her on modern day standards, but in all fairness she actively judges older writers in the ...more

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Mar 23, 2014 GONZA rated it liked it · review of another edition

Mi dispiace ma Virginia Woolf non fa per me, ho provato con i romanzi e gli ho dato una chance con i saggi, il risultato è stato che per leggere poco più di 100 pagine ci ho messo 20 giorni, inconcepibile.
Il suo modo di scrivere, per quanto a detta di tutti meraviglioso, mi provoca un'indicibile sonnolenza, ogni volta che provo a leggerla mi cade la testa sul libro.
Evidentemente non siamo fatte l'una per l'altra pure se questo saggio sulla presenza/assenza di donne nella letteratura mi interes ...more

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