Virginia Woolf
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| Original Title: | A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN: | 0156027917 (ISBN13: 9780156027915) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.Itemize Out Of Books A Writer's Diary
| Title | : | A Writer's Diary |
| Author | : | Virginia Woolf |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 355 pages |
| Published | : | March 31st 2003 by Mariner Books (first published 1953) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Language. Writing. Biography. Classics. Autobiography. Memoir |
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Ratings: 4.26 From 3985 Users | 219 ReviewsNotice Out Of Books A Writer's Diary
My copy of Virginia Woolfs A WRITER'S DIARY seems to be a first edition of 1953 from The Hogarth Press. It has that smell of an old book about it a mix of tobacco, spores and midnight oil. The original owner of the book has written her name in on the first page in slanting black ink...Marjory Todd...and dated it 1/1/54,suggesting that this was a Christmas present. Dipping into it on occasion, as I do, reminds me of something Virginia wrote...What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me!These diary entries brim over with life, with hunger, with a passion that cannot be contained, with the conflicted need to absorb it all; the lonely walks in the Sussex countryside, the visual and sonorous chaos of life in the city, of incessant travel, mental and otherwise, the unstoppable flow of time, the transience of things, the galloping rhythm of emotions, sensations and the simultaneity of memory, past and present in ones conscience, the tedium of discussions and routine, the truth about
A Writer's Diary, unlike Woolf's fictionbeautiful though, is an easy book to read. One can see what she has lived through from 1918 to 1941. The book is aptly titled; it is primarily about words, mind, books, artists, writing, and how these myriad things at once possess and liberate a sensitive soul like hers.'There are a few things, among many other, that particularly make me stop and reflect to know her better. What one immediately recognizes in her work, even when her work is not really
These diary entries brim over with life, with hunger, with a passion that cannot be contained, with the conflicted need to absorb it all; the lonely walks in the Sussex countryside, the visual and sonorous chaos of life in the city, of incessant travel, mental and otherwise, the unstoppable flow of time, the transience of things, the galloping rhythm of emotions, sensations and the simultaneity of memory, past and present in ones conscience, the tedium of discussions and routine, the truth about
scritch scratch scritch scratch dash scritch scratch scritch scratch semi-colon scritch scratch scritch scratch inkblot the trusty nib flounders a moment then wades through the puddle of ink and on to the end of the lineto the end of the pageto the end of that years diary and though it flounders sometimes along the waythe trusty nib keeps on scratching through the diariesuntil half-way though the last it flounders finally_______________________________Now for The Longer Review - and apologies in
Published by Leonard Woolf in 1953, A Writer's Diary compiles literary extracts from Virginia Woolf's full diary: the short collection's entries feature the writer's plans for her own books; her reactions to other writers' works; character sketches and other exercises; and philosophical musings about literature and society. Not a single part of the diary reads as superfluous or superficial. Even at her most informal, Virginia wrote thoughtful and brilliant prose, and Leonard included only the
Surprisingly as tough and true as its subtitle implies, this paperback has indeed started as my long journey of reading it since 1994, the year I bought its paperback copy (HarperCollins, 1978) in which I browsed off and on once in a while with inadequate motive and left it (at p. 260) on the shelf till I came across this Harcourt edition with larger fonts early this month in the Booklovers Bookshop on Rambutri Lane, next to Khaosan Road, Banglampoo in Bangkok. Delighted to have a more handsome
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