A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own - Paperback

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A Room of One's Own - Paperback

A Room of One's Own - Paperback

by Virginia Woolf
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by Virginia Woolf (Author), Lauren Groff (Introduction by)

Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.

In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments--such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not--Woolf analyzes the many ways in which women have been held back throughout history and still are in her own time. First published in 1929, A Room of One's Own has been a towering and inspirational statement of feminist principles for nearly a century--and remains relevant now, at a time of growing awareness of the kind of social injustices that she decried.

Author Biography

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.

About the Introducer: LAUREN GROFF is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won the Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Groff 's work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: January 07, 2025
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Room of One's Own
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 8.2
Point Value: 7
ISBN9780593688632
Author Virginia Woolf
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreHistory, Education, and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages128
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own (1929).

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