A Writer's Diary
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few documents in the history of English literature offer as intimate and unguarded a window into the creative mind as A Writer's Diary, the carefully curated selection of entries from Virginia Woolf's private journals, edited and published posthumously by her husband Leonard Woolf. Spanning nearly three decades of her life, the diary chronicles the inner workings of one of modernism's most brilliant and tormented minds — recording her struggles with self-doubt, her meticulous craft, and the daily discipline behind landmark works such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. What emerges is not merely a record of literary production, but a profound meditation on the nature of writing itself — on failure, ambition, the terror of the blank page, and the fierce, private joy of a sentence that finally rings true. Woolf's prose, even in its most unguarded form, radiates with the same crystalline intelligence and emotional precision that defines her fiction. For readers, writers, and scholars alike, this volume stands as both an indispensable companion to her novels and a masterwork in its own right — leaving one to wonder: what else lay hidden in those pages Leonard chose not to share?
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Paperback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few documents in the history of English literature offer as intimate and unguarded a window into the creative mind as A Writer's Diary, the carefully curated selection of entries from Virginia Woolf's private journals, edited and published posthumously by her husband Leonard Woolf. Spanning nearly three decades of her life, the diary chronicles the inner workings of one of modernism's most brilliant and tormented minds — recording her struggles with self-doubt, her meticulous craft, and the daily discipline behind landmark works such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. What emerges is not merely a record of literary production, but a profound meditation on the nature of writing itself — on failure, ambition, the terror of the blank page, and the fierce, private joy of a sentence that finally rings true. Woolf's prose, even in its most unguarded form, radiates with the same crystalline intelligence and emotional precision that defines her fiction. For readers, writers, and scholars alike, this volume stands as both an indispensable companion to her novels and a masterwork in its own right — leaving one to wonder: what else lay hidden in those pages Leonard chose not to share?