A Room of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

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A Room of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition - Paperback

A Room of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition - Paperback

by Virginia Woolf
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister--a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling.

In this classic essay, Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a steady income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create.

With a Foreword by Mary Gordon
ISBN9780156787338
Author Virginia Woolf
PublisherMariner Books Classics
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 1989
LanguageENG- English
Pages128
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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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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