The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf is a collection of Virginia Woolf's essays including: The Common Reader, "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights," The Patron and The Crocus, The Modern Essay, The Death Of The Moth Evening Over Sussex: ...
Collects articles and book reviews by the English novelist
'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.
' Rebecca West) This collection shows Woolf's genius as a critic and essayist: as well as displaying her perceptive understanding of writers and their work, it also offers us an important insight into her creative mind.
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?
Although marginal and often neglected genres, the sketch and the essay represented for Virginia Woolf the two forms of writing through which she articulated her understanding of the workings of literary history.
This is the third volume in a series on the complete non-fiction work of Virginia Woolf, which contains her essays, diaries and letters.
New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf and the Essay is one of the first critical studies to focus exclusively on Woolf's essays and thereby anticipates what is fast becoming the next major area of interest in Woolf studies.
Virginia Woolf once said that the essay 'is simply to give pleasure', one with this collection of her work you can see she achieved her goal.