![]() ![]() Please have a look at our other recently listed duos and trios of notable 20th century authors in high quality publications. Copies have extremely gentle handling wear and are very close to fine. The second volume contains two longer essays, notable in their own right and not part of the first volume. Overall, these pieces are as indispensable to an understanding of this great writer as they are enchanting in their own right. She writes movingly about her father and the art of biography, and of the London scene in the early decades of the twentieth century. She discusses the arts of writing and of reading, and the particular role and reputation of women writers. This selection brings together thirty of her best essays, including the famous 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown', a clarion call for modern fiction. 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 its last.' One of the best practitioners of the art she analysed so rewardingly, Woolf displayed her essay-writing skills across a wide range of subjects, with all the craftsmanship, substance, and rich allure of her novels. ![]() Please see seller image for list of essays in the first volume. Reprints in the attractive Oxford Classics series with illustrated covers and white panels containing titles. ![]()
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