On Fiction

Virginia Woolf

 

 

  • 2011 is the 70th anniversary of Virginia WoolfÕs death by suicide

 

  • Only available edition of this collection of essays

 

  • Celebrates the ever-popular pastime of reading and storytelling

 

  • Coincides with the Hesperus publication of Brief Lives: Virginia Woolf

 

 

 

 

ÔHere, then, very briefly and with inevitable simplification, an attempt is made to show the mind at work upon a shelf full of novels and to watch it as it chooses and rejects, making itself a dwelling-place in accordance with its own appetites. Of these appetites, perhaps, the simplest is the desire to believe wholly and entirely in something which is fictitious.Õ

 

Her readings sensitive, her prose style elegant, authoritative and at times thoroughly opinionated, who better equipped than Virginia Woolf to ruminate on the art of fiction? In this selection of lesser-known essays on reading and storytelling, Woolf turns her critical gaze on treasured favourites including Ôthe four great women novelists – Jane Austen, Emily Bront‘, Charlotte Bront‘ and George EliotÕ, and unearths some less familiar talents. Her discussion of differing approaches to reading is characteristically forward-thinking, and pinpoints the joys of this favourite pastime, in all its guises.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Zone de texte: SERIES: ÔOnÕ Series
28 Oct 11 ¥ 978 1 84391 618 5
B format Pb ¥ 112pp ¥ £7.99
Zone de texte: Hesperus Press

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of the foremost innovative writers of the twentieth century, most famous for her novels Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse.