A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
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Author: Virginia WoolfEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-11-07
ISBN: 0151787336
Number of pages: 125
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
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Summary: 5 Stars
Where can I begin to describe this wonderful invitation to an exceptionally brilliant mind? The book is supposed to be about women and fiction, but it offers so much more--acute observations on literature, disparities in society between sexes, interity of writing and activity of reading. Her writing style is fluid, beautifully and flawlessly transitions between facts, observations, thoughts and insight. Her criticism is sharp and poignant but without bitterness, self-pity, or arrogance, so inviting into her intimate thoughts. She has a great ability to use hypothetical character, such as Judith, Shakespeare's sister, and to use examples--Jane Austen, Coleridge-- so creatively without causing any distraction. This book satisfies her own standard, "One must strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions and so reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth". This is an excellent book worth reading over and over.
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