Virginia Woolf (New B-Format ed) /anglais - Couverture souple

Harris, Alexandra

 
9780500297834: Virginia Woolf (New B-Format ed) /anglais
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0500297835 ISBN 13 : 9780500297834
Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Alexandra Harris studied at Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute in London, and worked at Christie's for a year before returning to Oxford to write a doctorate on art and literature in the 1930s. She is now a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, running courses on Modernism and American writing, and leading the MA in Contemporary Literature. Her first full-length book, Romantic Moderns, published by Thames & Hudson, was the winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award. Alexandra Harris was also a winner in the BBC's 'New Generation Thinkers' contest in 2011.

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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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Éditeur
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0500297835
ISBN 13 
9780500297834
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0500515921 ISBN 13 :  9780500515921
Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2011
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