How Should One Read a Book?
Will be published approx. on 8. June 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-300-28347-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ten of Virginia Woolf's most beloved essays in a new edition, introduced by Meghan O'Rourke
Virginia Woolf is renowned as a novelist, but she was a prolific and gifted essayist and literary critic as well. She wrote on Jane Eyre and Jane Austen, on Daniel Defoe and Laurence Sterne, on war and feminism, aiming her work at the "common reader."
Between 1926 and 1939, Woolf wrote ten essays-on the pleasures of writing, reading, and walking-for publication in the Yale Review, including the now-classic pieces "Street Haunting: A London Adventure," "Letter to a Young Poet," and "How Should One Read a Book?" ("To read a book well," Woolf wrote, "one should read it as if one were writing it.") Here is Woolf at her critical best-incisive, lyric, and mercurial in turn.
These ten essays have now been gathered in a striking edition introduced by Meghan O'Rourke, editor of the Yale Review.
Virginia Woolf is renowned as a novelist, but she was a prolific and gifted essayist and literary critic as well. She wrote on Jane Eyre and Jane Austen, on Daniel Defoe and Laurence Sterne, on war and feminism, aiming her work at the "common reader."
Between 1926 and 1939, Woolf wrote ten essays-on the pleasures of writing, reading, and walking-for publication in the Yale Review, including the now-classic pieces "Street Haunting: A London Adventure," "Letter to a Young Poet," and "How Should One Read a Book?" ("To read a book well," Woolf wrote, "one should read it as if one were writing it.") Here is Woolf at her critical best-incisive, lyric, and mercurial in turn.
These ten essays have now been gathered in a striking edition introduced by Meghan O'Rourke, editor of the Yale Review.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-300-28347-1 (9780300283471)
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Persons
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a pioneering English novelist and essayist, one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. Her works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves; feminist literary and political criticism, including A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas; and many essays, letters, and journals. Meghan O'Rourke is the editor of the Yale Review and the author of the best-selling books The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness and The Long Goodbye, and award-winning volumes of poetry, including Sun in Days and Halflife.