A Room of One's Own (Flamingo Modern Classics)
 | Spanish EditionHarperCollins Publishers, 1996, Hardcover Customer Rating: 42 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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One of the landmark works for feminists of this century grew out of two lectures Virginia Woolf delivered at Cambridge University in 1928. Asked to speak about women and fiction, Woolf presented to her audience a highly personal discusson of the questions preoccupying her. Her far-reaching intelligence, her energy and her compassionate wit shine throughout this brilliant and inspiring work. 2 cassettes.
Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational — and completely entertaining — walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism.
Title: A Room of One's Own (Flamingo Modern Classics) (Spanish Edition)
Sales Rank: 2010113 in Books
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996-08, Hardcover, 128 pages, ISBN: 0006547583
Package Dimensions: 7.72 x 5.16 x 0.31 inches, 0.22 pounds
- Beautiful, Heartwarming & Inspiring
- This is not just an essay on feminism, this is a window to Virginia Woolf's thought pattern and logic. A Room of One's Own is beautifully written, it almost reads like a novel yet is packed with insightful thoughts on the idea of being an independent woman. The roles of women have changed since Virginia wrote this book but that in no way renders this book obsolete, for… More reviews
- Still Relevant and Important
- One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf's very intense A Room Of One's Own, is actually a long essay she wrote "with ardour and conviction" on the the topic of women and fiction, that she prepared when asked to speak about this… More reviews
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- Transaction went smoothly and got the item quicky in the condition promised. Would purchase again.… More reviews
- A Room of One's Own
- I found it tedious to read in spite of the high literary reputation and ability of Virginia Woolf. There must be something lacking in me.
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- Obligatory Reading
- Virginia Woolf in her best form - personal but not self-centred, concentrated and ready to fight for what she believes is right. This long essay gives her views on the position of women in literature but offers also an overview of their role through centuries - from the imaginary Shakespeare's sister to her contemporaries. A must read for all readers regardless of sex! More reviews
