Street Haunting: Virginia Woolf (Little Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Woolf, Virginia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241597048 ISBN 13: 9780241597040

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2022

Synopsis

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful'. In such conditions, Virginia Woolf takes to London's streets in search of a pencil. The account of her journey - the people, the places, the pleasure - soon becomes one of the great paeans to city life. This collection also includes other wonderful essays, such as 'How Should One Read a Book?' and 'The Sun and the Fish'.

'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' Guardian

About this title

About the Author

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

From the Back Cover

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Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241597048
• ISBN 13: 9780241597040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176