Selected Diaries: Virginia Woolf (Vintage classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099518252 ISBN 13: 9780099518259

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit. The result is one of the greatest diaries in the English language.

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Review:

"Her nephew Quentin Bell claims that the thirty volumes of Woolf's diary are a masterpiece.Anne Olivier Bell has reduced them to a single volume. It think it is still a masterpiece" (A.S. Byatt Evening Standard)

"I stick by the old heresy, that Woolf’s diary is her greatest achievement. An enthrallingly uncensored portrait of a brilliantly perceptive mind as it moves through a fascinating world in complex times" (Alan Hollinghurst New York Times)

"One of the glories of our literature" (Paul Levy)

"She made portraits exact, more clairvoyant, more living than those of any writer I know" (P.N. Furbank)

"A work of the highest imaginative genius, with powers of perception and description unexampled in our time" (Isaiah Berlin)

Book Description:

A moving, perceptive and beautifully written insight into the workings of the mind of one of the best loved and most admired writers of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099518252
• ISBN 13: 9780099518259
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544