The Essays of Virginia Woolf

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The Essays of Virginia Woolf (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

In March of 1923 Arnold Bennett, then one of England’s most popular and acclaimed novelists, wrote thus of a novel which had appeared the previous year:

I have seldom read a cleverer book than Virginia Woolf’s Jacobs’ Room, a novel which has made a great stir in a small world. It is packed and bursting with originality, and it is exquisitely written. But the characters do not vitally survive in the mind because the author has been obsessed by details of originality and cleverness. I regard this book as characteristic of the new novelists who have recently gained the...

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• Virginia Woolf (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Virginia Woolf (Short Fiction)
• Virginia Woolf (Long Fiction)
• Virginia Woolf (Dictionary of World Biography)