A Room of One's Own (The Norton Library): 0 - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393893995 ISBN 13: 9780393893991

Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 2026

Synopsis

Part of the Norton Library series

The Norton Library edition of A Room of One’s Own features Virginia Woolf’s original 1929 text. Dora Zhang provides a thoughtful introduction and targeted notes that illuminate the essay’s enduring themes while offering readers a strong foundation for engaging with Woolf’s rich, complex, and at times contradictory prose.

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About this title

About the Authors

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was the world-renowned author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, among other works.

Dora Zhang is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel (University of Chicago Press, 2020), which studies the works of Henry James, Marcel Proust, and, centrally, Virginia Woolf in order to reinvigorate our understanding of the ubiquitous but undertheorized category of novelistic description. Her writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Chronicle Review, and The Point.

Edition details

• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393893995
• ISBN 13: 9780393893991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160