A Room of One's Own
Introduction by Merve Emre
Published on 7. January 2025
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-1-101-90850-1 (ISBN)
Description
"A hardcover Contemporary Classics edition of Virginia Woolf's classic feminist manifesto, with a bibliography, a chronology of the author's life and times, and a new introduction by Merve Emre"--
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-101-90850-1 (9781101908501)
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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One’s Own, and other acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.
MERVE EMRE is a professor at Wesleyan University, where she is also the director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Bookforum, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Baffler, n+1, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
MERVE EMRE is a professor at Wesleyan University, where she is also the director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Bookforum, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Baffler, n+1, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.