Virginia Woolf
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Poor to Fair. Jacket: chipped, worn with minor damage; stained; repaired with tapes. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: unmrkd. Binding condition: Binding intact but aged; pages show significant age-related deterioration consistent with a 1932 publication.
Published in 1932, Winifred Holtby's critical study of Virginia Woolf stands as one of the earliest and most perceptive assessments of a writer who was still very much alive and at the height of her powers. Holtby, herself a distinguished novelist and close contemporary, dissects Woolf's revolutionary narrative techniques — stream of consciousness, lyrical prose rhythm, and the dissolution of conventional plot — with both intellectual rigour and personal insight. The result is a portrait of a literary mind that refused to be confined by the traditions of the Victorian novel, forging instead a new language for interior experience. Written at a moment when Woolf's reputation was still being contested, Holtby's work argued passionately for her place among the great modernist writers of the twentieth century. The study illuminates the philosophical and feminist undercurrents running through works such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, connecting Woolf's formal innovations to broader questions of gender, consciousness, and the nature of time. For scholars and admirers of modernist literature alike, this rare first-edition volume remains an indispensable primary text — a brilliant writer's tribute to another, captured in the very moment of history they shared.
Author: Winifred Holtby
Format: Hardback
Published: 1932, Wishart & Co.
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Poor to Fair. Jacket: chipped, worn with minor damage; stained; repaired with tapes. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: unmrkd. Binding condition: Binding intact but aged; pages show significant age-related deterioration consistent with a 1932 publication.
Published in 1932, Winifred Holtby's critical study of Virginia Woolf stands as one of the earliest and most perceptive assessments of a writer who was still very much alive and at the height of her powers. Holtby, herself a distinguished novelist and close contemporary, dissects Woolf's revolutionary narrative techniques — stream of consciousness, lyrical prose rhythm, and the dissolution of conventional plot — with both intellectual rigour and personal insight. The result is a portrait of a literary mind that refused to be confined by the traditions of the Victorian novel, forging instead a new language for interior experience. Written at a moment when Woolf's reputation was still being contested, Holtby's work argued passionately for her place among the great modernist writers of the twentieth century. The study illuminates the philosophical and feminist undercurrents running through works such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, connecting Woolf's formal innovations to broader questions of gender, consciousness, and the nature of time. For scholars and admirers of modernist literature alike, this rare first-edition volume remains an indispensable primary text — a brilliant writer's tribute to another, captured in the very moment of history they shared.