Description
Near Fine dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. A dark colored portrait of a lady. The Near Fine condition binding is purple paper over boards, black cloth backed, silver lettering on spine. Very minor fading at edges. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.6 tall x 5.8 wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Virginia Woolf’s reputation as a novelist tends to overshadow her significance as a literary critic. Her first published works, however, were reviews of critical essays, and she continued to write literary criticism until her death. Only the two volumes of The Common Reader were published during her lifetime. Five additional volumes of essays were published posthumously. Since the lost appeared, in 1965, me search has revealed well over a hundred articles never before collected. From these Mary Lyon has chosen forty eight essays and reviews that seemed, from both the reader’s and the scholars point of view, most important to preserve-a difficult task, Dr Lyon writes, “largely because of the interest inherent in nearly every piece that Virginia Woolf wrote… She was a perfectionist who always wrote with her whole mind and critical faculties deeply engaged. Many of these pieces were written when Virginia was still in her twenties, but from the very beginning her literary judgment was sure and her style distinctive.
Books and Portraits ranges through English, Russian, and American literature and provides a number of vivid biographical sketches. Women have a special place in this engaging volume-among them, Jane Austen, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Ella Wheeler Wilcox Queen Elizabeth, Lady Stranchey and Sarah Bernhardt.
