{"product_id":"9780008361884-genius-and-ink","title":"Genius and Ink","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVirginia Woolf on How to Read\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eIn the early years of its existence, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eA Room of One’s Own\u003c\/em\u003e.\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536478806390,"sku":"9780008361884","price":8.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28170329.jpg?v=1774289065","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780008361884-genius-and-ink","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}