Virginia Woolf
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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Few literary lives have been as turbulent, brilliant, and heartbreaking as that of Virginia Woolf — and no one was better placed to chronicle it than her own nephew. Quentin Bell's Virginia Woolf stands as the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most visionary writers, tracing her life from her privileged yet scarred childhood in late Victorian London, through the glittering intellectual world of the Bloomsbury Group, to the devastating mental illness that would ultimately claim her life in 1941. With intimate access to family letters, diaries, and personal recollections, Bell constructs a portrait of a woman of extraordinary genius, whose inner world was as turbulent as the modernist prose she would use to revolutionise the English novel. Written with the authority of a family insider and the precision of a scholar, this biography illuminates not only the woman behind masterworks such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, but also the cultural and social milieu that both nurtured and tormented her. Bell charts the contradictions at the heart of Woolf's existence — her fierce intellect alongside her fragility, her public brilliance alongside her private anguish — with a tenderness and clarity that remains unmatched. A landmark work in twentieth-century literary biography, it leaves the reader with an indelible sense of a life lived at the very edge of human experience.
Author: Quentin Bell
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few literary lives have been as turbulent, brilliant, and heartbreaking as that of Virginia Woolf — and no one was better placed to chronicle it than her own nephew. Quentin Bell's Virginia Woolf stands as the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most visionary writers, tracing her life from her privileged yet scarred childhood in late Victorian London, through the glittering intellectual world of the Bloomsbury Group, to the devastating mental illness that would ultimately claim her life in 1941. With intimate access to family letters, diaries, and personal recollections, Bell constructs a portrait of a woman of extraordinary genius, whose inner world was as turbulent as the modernist prose she would use to revolutionise the English novel. Written with the authority of a family insider and the precision of a scholar, this biography illuminates not only the woman behind masterworks such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, but also the cultural and social milieu that both nurtured and tormented her. Bell charts the contradictions at the heart of Woolf's existence — her fierce intellect alongside her fragility, her public brilliance alongside her private anguish — with a tenderness and clarity that remains unmatched. A landmark work in twentieth-century literary biography, it leaves the reader with an indelible sense of a life lived at the very edge of human experience.