{"product_id":"genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read","title":"Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eM. Forster among them. But one of the paper's defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad: all are here, in anonymously published pieces, in which may be glimpsed the thinking behind Woolf's works of fiction and the enquiring, feminist spirit of A Room of One's Own. Here is Woolf the critical essayist, offering, at one moment, a playful hypothesis and, at another, a judgement laid down with the authority of a twentieth-century Dr Johnson. Here is Woolf working out precisely what's great about Hardy, and how Elizabeth Barrett Browning made books a \"substitute for living\" because she was \"forbidden to scamper on the grass\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbove all, here is Virginia Woolf the reader, whose enthusiasm for great literature remains palpable and inspirational today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nPublished: in UK in 2019\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: TLS Books\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 240\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN 13: 9780008355722\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN 10: 000835572X\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Woolf, Ali Smith (FRW)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32783199240295,"sku":null,"price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/000835572X.jpg?v=1601397971","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}