{"product_id":"genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read","title":"Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read","description":"\u003cp\u003eFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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. M. 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 \u003cp\u003eThe weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHere 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\". Above all, here is Virginia Woolf the reader, whose enthusiasm for great literature remains palpable and inspirational today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e HarperCollinsPublishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780008355722\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Woolf, Virginia","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £754.80","offer_id":47977561915569,"sku":"SB-000835572X-C3","price":754.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}