{"product_id":"genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read-9780008361884","title":"Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of its existence, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper's defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad: all are here, in anonymously published pieces, in which may be glimpsed the thinking behind Woolf's works of fiction and the enquiring, feminist spirit of \u003cem\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is Woolf the critical essayist, offering, at one moment, a playful hypothesis and, at another, a judgement laid down with the authority of a twentieth-century Dr Johnson. Here is Woolf working out precisely what's great about Hardy, and how Elizabeth Barrett Browning made books a \"substitute for living\" because she was \"forbidden to scamper on the grass\". Above all, here is Virginia Woolf the reader, whose enthusiasm for great literature remains palpable and inspirational today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Virginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tls Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780008361884","brand":"Tls Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440484290697,"sku":"9780008361884","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b71c628f-d552-4ca2-a486-69f1b29cda64.jpg?v=1716238721","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read-9780008361884","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}