How Should One Read a Book?
Autor Virginia Woolf Introducere de Meghan O'Rourkeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mar 2027
Virginia Woolf is renowned as a novelist, but she was a prolific and gifted essayist and literary critic as well. She wrote on Jane Eyre and Jane Austen, on Daniel Defoe and Laurence Sterne, on war and feminism, aiming her work at the “common reader.”
Between 1926 and 1939, Woolf wrote ten essays—on the pleasures of writing, reading, and walking—for publication in the Yale Review, including the now-classic pieces “Street Haunting: A London Adventure,” “Letter to a Young Poet,” and “How Should One Read a Book?” (“To read a book well,” Woolf wrote, “one should read it as if one were writing it.”) Here is Woolf at her critical best—incisive, lyric, and mercurial in turn.
These ten essays have now been gathered in a striking edition introduced by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of the Yale Review.
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ISBN-13: 9780300283471
ISBN-10: 0300283474
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300283474
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a pioneering English novelist and essayist, one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. Her works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves; feminist literary and political criticism, including A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas; and many essays, letters, and journals. Meghan O’Rourke is the editor of the Yale Review and the author of the best-selling books The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness and The Long Goodbye, and award-winning volumes of poetry, including Sun in Days and Halflife.
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First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word.
First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word.