The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: Volume I: 1915–1919
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At the heart of one of the most turbulent and creatively fertile periods in literary history lies the private voice of Virginia Woolf — unfiltered, luminous, and arrestingly alive. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume I: 1915–1919 chronicles the earliest years of her diary-keeping, spanning a world torn apart by the First World War and a mind simultaneously battling personal demons and forging the very language of literary modernism. Introduced by her nephew Quentin Bell, the celebrated biographer whose definitive life of Woolf remains a landmark work, and meticulously edited by Anne Olivier Bell, this first volume presents Woolf's innermost thoughts with scholarly care and biographical richness. These pages reveal a writer of extraordinary perceptiveness navigating domestic life in Richmond, the nascent Bloomsbury circle, and the founding of the Hogarth Press alongside her husband Leonard Woolf — all rendered in prose of startling beauty and wit. The diary stands not merely as a historical document but as a work of literature in its own right, illuminating the origins of the sensibility that would produce Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. For readers who believe they know Virginia Woolf, this intimate record of her inner life will uncover a woman both more fragile and more formidable than the myth — leaving one hungry for the volumes still to come.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, The Hogarth Press
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At the heart of one of the most turbulent and creatively fertile periods in literary history lies the private voice of Virginia Woolf — unfiltered, luminous, and arrestingly alive. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume I: 1915–1919 chronicles the earliest years of her diary-keeping, spanning a world torn apart by the First World War and a mind simultaneously battling personal demons and forging the very language of literary modernism. Introduced by her nephew Quentin Bell, the celebrated biographer whose definitive life of Woolf remains a landmark work, and meticulously edited by Anne Olivier Bell, this first volume presents Woolf's innermost thoughts with scholarly care and biographical richness. These pages reveal a writer of extraordinary perceptiveness navigating domestic life in Richmond, the nascent Bloomsbury circle, and the founding of the Hogarth Press alongside her husband Leonard Woolf — all rendered in prose of startling beauty and wit. The diary stands not merely as a historical document but as a work of literature in its own right, illuminating the origins of the sensibility that would produce Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. For readers who believe they know Virginia Woolf, this intimate record of her inner life will uncover a woman both more fragile and more formidable than the myth — leaving one hungry for the volumes still to come.