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Virginia Woolf
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- Book Synopsis
- The landmark study of Woolf and her world, a classic of contemporary life-writing. 'A lasting, and even a great book' - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf is a great writer, a subversive thinker, and a vital figure for our times. Lee tells a richly-detailed life story, and asks crucial questions of her subject, probing the impact of Woolf's childhood, her mental illness and suicide, her marriage and love affairs, her prejudices and obsessions. This vivid, close-up portrait is replete with primary sources which destabilise received ideas about this iconic figure. It is a writer's life, illustrating how the concerns of her work arise and develop, and a political life, which establishes Woolf as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist. Incorporating newly discovered sources and illustrated with photos and drawings never used before, this biography is a revelation - informed, intelligent and moving. 'An outstanding achievement...superb' Selena Hastings, Sunday Telegraph 'Impressive...eloquent...powerful,' Financial Times
- About The Author
- HERMIONE LEE is a biographer, Professor Emeritus of English Literature and former President of Wolfson College, Oxford. Her writings include biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006), Penelope Fitzgerald (2013) and Tom Stoppard (2020). She is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature and in 2024 was made a Dame Grand Cross (GBE) for services to literary scholarship and literature. She lives in Oxford.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780099732518
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage, (02 October 1997)
- Number of Pages
- 892
- Weight
- 678 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 129 x 49 mm
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