How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf (English) Paperback Book

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First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word.

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'I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards – their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble – the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading."'First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word.With a measured but ardent tone, Woolf weaves together thought and quote, verse and prose into a moving tract on the power literature can have over its reader, in a way which still resounds with truth today.

Author Biography

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a Modernist writer, widely considered to be one of the most important of the twentieth century. She and her husband Leonard bought a hand-printing press in 1917, and they set up Hogarth Press in their house in Richmond, which published much of Virginia's work, as well as those of friends and fellow luminaries. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Set – an artistic, philosophic and literary group which included John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. Today she is best remembered for her novels – in particular To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway – and her essay A Room of One's Own.

Table of Contents

How Should One Read a Book?, Note on the Text, Notes, A Biographical Note on Virginia Woolf

Review

'An eloquent champion of the joy of reading.' (Maria Popova)

Details ISBN1913724476 Author Virginia Woolf Pages 48 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1913724476 ISBN-13 9781913724474 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-11-24 DEWEY 824.912 Publisher Renard Press Ltd Imprint Renard Press Ltd Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-11-24 NZ Release Date 2021-11-24 UK Release Date 2021-11-24 Audience General We've got this

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