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  • A Room of One's Own

    Series series Essentials Classics
    Virginia Woolf’s beloved classic, with a new forewordA Room of One’s Own is an American classic that has been inspiring readers since its initial publication in 1929. Based on two lectures that Woolf delivered at the University of Cambridge, this collection of extended essays highlights the importance of education and independence for aspiring writers. Woolf calls for the inclusion of more female ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • A Room of One's Own (Hero Classics)

    Part of the Hero Classics series“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”Based on two talks given by the author, and first published in September 1929, Virginia Woolf's seminal essay revolves around the central claim that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Room Of One's Own

    The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

    Series Book 23 - The Virginia Woolf Library
    Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one’s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Common Reader

    A Virginia Woolf Novel

    Virginia Woolf's ***The Common Reade***r is a celebrated collection of essays that demonstrates her extraordinary literary criticism and unique perspective on literature.This classic work brings together Woolf's reflections on various authors and their contributions to literature, offering insightful and often provocative commentary on both canonical and lesser-known works. Woolf's essays cover a ... Read more

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  • The Common Reader, Second Series

    ''The Common Reader: Second Series'' (1932) is a celebrated collection of essays by Virginia Woolf that champions the perspective of the non-academic, everyday reader. Expanding on the success of her 1925 First Series, the book features 26 essays covering English literature, biography, and the lives of women writers. The collection explores literary giants and lesser-known historical figures, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Common Reader

    With the first volume published in 1925 and the second in 1932, The Common Reader brings together a collection of Woolf's critical essays and articles, in total forty entries covering historical and contemporary authors and themes. By no means is this a complete collection of her critical work – she was reviewing in established magazines well before she'd published any of her own work – but it is ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

    A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of Virginia Woolf's work, mainly on literary, personal, biographical, theatrical, and social subjects. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" - Times Literary Supplement. ... Read more

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  • The Prince of Minor Writers

    The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

    by Max Beerbohm ...
    AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINALVirginia Woolf called Max Beerbohm “the prince” of essayists, F. W. Dupee praised his “whim of iron” and “cleverness amounting to genius,” while Beerbohm himself noted that “only the insane take themselves quite seriously.” From his precocious debut as a dandy in 1890s Oxford until he put his pen aside in the aftermath of World War II, Beerbohm was recognized as an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • On Reading, Writing and Living with Books

    Series Book 6 - The London Library
    The London Library is the world's largest independent library. Founded in 1841 by Thomas Carlyle (in reaction to the "museum headache" brought on by the crowds in the British Museum Reading Room), it has become a haven for readers, writers and all who draw strength, solace or inspiration from the presence of books. Some of the most illustrious figures of the last two centuries have written, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tea-Table Talk

    by K.J. Jerome ...
    They are very pretty, some of them, said the Woman of the World; not the sort of letters I should have written myself. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Virginia Woolf - Essays

    Series Book 1 - Essays
    Step into the luminous, sharp, and transformative essays of Virginia Woolf.Celebrated across the world for landmark modernist novels like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf revealed in her non-fiction a presence just as captivating: that of a remarkably candid, witty, and intimate conversationalist. In her hands, the essay was never intended to be an arid lecture or a pedantic ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

    'The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it is a sound - far more than prayers and anthems - that should compel one to think about peace. Unless ... Read more

    $5.99 USD