Virginia Woolf: by Alexandra Harris - Softcover

Harris, Alexandra

 
9780500297834: Virginia Woolf: by Alexandra Harris
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500297835 ISBN 13: 9780500297834
Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination.

In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still to prove. She felt herself to be at a crossroads: ‘I shall be miserable, or happy; a wordy sentimental creature, or a writer of such English as shall one day burn the pages.’ Today her prose is still blazing; perhaps it burns brighter than ever.

This is the story of how a determined young woman with a notebook became one of the greatest writers of all time. It is a story that sparkles with wit and friendship, language and love, wicked jokes and passionate appreciation of ordinary things. Hers was a life lived with intensity from moment to moment, courageous and defiant of convention, and shaped into the lasting patterns of art.

Considering each of Woolf’s novels in context, this gripping account shows why, eighty years after her death, Virginia Woolf continues to haunt and inspire us.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexandra Harris is a literary critic and cultural historian. She worked for ten years at the University of Liverpool, and is now Professor of English at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Romantic Moderns (2010), Weatherland (2015), both published by Thames & Hudson, and The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape (2024), as well as many essays on art and literature.

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An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination.

This gripping account offers an ideal introduction to both the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It considers each of Woolf’s novels in context and shows why, seventy years after her death, Virginia Woolf continues to haunt and inspire us.

In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still to prove. She felt herself to be at a crossroads: ‘I shall be miserable, or happy; a wordy sentimental creature, or a writer of such English as shall one day burn the pages.’

Today her prose is still blazing; perhaps it burns brighter than ever. For this is the story of how a determined young woman with a notebook became one of the greatest writers of all time. It is a story that sparkles with wit and friendship, language and love, wicked jokes and passionate appreciation of ordinary things. Hers was a life lived with intensity from moment to moment, courageous and defiant of convention, and shaped into the lasting patterns of art.

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Verlag
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500297835
ISBN 13 
9780500297834
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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