Virginia Woolf

Author: Lei Men
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This wonderful biography, which introduces Virginia Woolf's life and works, includes one hundred thirty-six exquisite illustrations, allowing us to gain an in-depth understanding of Woolf and explore the spirit of her works through her inner world and life. Woolf was a versatile novelist and literary critic, as well as a pioneer of modern Western feminism. This book gives us a glimpse into her brief yet rich life; how she became a key member of Bloomsbury, how she and her husband founded the British Hogarth Press, and how she, despite suffering from mental illness, completed one masterpiece after another, establishing her as a 20th-century outstanding and innovative stream-of-consciousness novelist. Over the thirty years from her marriage to Leonard in 1912 to her suicide by drowning in 1941, she completed fifteen works, including the novels To the Lighthouse (1927), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), The Waves (1931), as well as one long diary and six collections of letters.