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Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924) By Virginia Woolf It seems to me possible, perhaps desirable, that I may be the only person in this room who has committed the folly of writing, try-ing to write, or failing to write, a novel. And when I asked my-self, as your invitation to speak to you about modern fiction.
Selected Essays by Woolf, Virginia Bradshaw, David. Oxford University Press, 2009. Paperback. New. 288 pages.
Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography.
Selected Essays (Oxford World's Classics series) by Virginia Woolf. '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 its last.'.
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Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.570, Wordsworth Editions.
A29 THE MOMENT AND OTHER ESSAYS 1947 (ed. by Leonard Woolf) A30 THE CAPTAIN’S DEATH BED AND OTHER ESSAYS (1950) (ed. by Leonard Woolf) A31 A WRITER’S DIARY 1953 (ed. by Leonard Woolf) Extracts from the complete diary. A34 GRANITE AND RAINBOW 1958 (ed. by Leonard Woolf) Essays. A35 CONTEMPORARY WRITERS 1965 (ed. by Jean Guiguet) Essays.