A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199536600 ISBN 13: 9780199536603

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 2008

Synopsis

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women's creativity will not be hampered by poverty, or by oppression. In Three Guineas (1938), however, Woolf argues that women's historical exclusion offers them the chance to form a political and cultural identity which could challenge the drive towards fascism and war.

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Review

'Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between £3.99 and £4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf's best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World's Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.'Elisabeth Jay, Westminster College, Oxford, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLV, No. 178, May '94

About the Author

aVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) is now recognised as a major 20th century author, a great novelist and essayist, and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199536600
• ISBN 13: 9780199536603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Shiach Morag