Selected essays
'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with...
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| Formato: | Livre papier |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Oxford ; New York [etc.] :
Oxford University Press
2008.
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| coleção: | Oxford world's classics
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Autres tirages : 2009, 2026 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
Sumário:
- Biographical Preface
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- A Chronology of Virginia Woolf
- SELECTED ESSAYS
- READING AND WRITING
- The Decay of Essay-Writing
- Modern Fiction
- The Modern Essay
- How it Strikes a Contemporary
- Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown
- Character in Fiction
- 'Impassioned Prose'
- How Should One Read a Book?
- Poetry, Fiction and the Future
- Craftsmanship
- LIFE-WRITING
- The New Biography
- On Being Ill
- Leslie Stephen
- The Art of Biography
- WOMEN AND FICTION
- The Feminine Note in Fiction
- Women Novelists
- Women and Fiction
- Professions for Women
- Memories of a Working Women's GuildWhy?
- LOOKING ON
- Thunder at Wembley
- The Cinema
- Street Haunting: A London Adventure
- The Sun and the Fish
- The Docks of London
- Oxford Street Tide
- Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car
- Flying over London
- Why Art Today Follows Politics
- Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
- Explanatory Notes