A Room of One's Own
$18.48
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
23 April 2025
Summary
Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.
In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments–such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not–Woolf analyzes the many ways in which women have been held back througho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593688632 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0593688635 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf, Lauren Groff |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 23 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 157mm x 204mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Virginia Woolf was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One’s Own, and other acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.
About the Introducer
Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won the Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Groff’s work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
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