Selected Diaries

ISBN-13: 9780099518259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 544 str.

Virginia Woolf

Opis

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

Recenzje

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

O autorze

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.