Selected Diaries
Virginia Woolf author Quentin Bell editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Sep '08
Should be back in stock very soon
A moving, perceptive and beautifully written insight into the workings of the mind of one of the best loved and most admired writers of the twentieth century.
Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit.Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit. The result is one of the greatest diaries in the English language.
Her nephew Quentin Bell claims that the thirty volumes of Woolf's diary are a masterpiece.Anne Olivier Bell has reduced them to a single volume. It think it is still a masterpiece -- A.S. Byatt * Evening Standard *
I stick by the old heresy, that Woolf’s diary is her greatest achievement. An enthrallingly uncensored portrait of a brilliantly perceptive mind as it moves through a fascinating world in complex times -- Alan Hollinghurst * New York Times *
One of the glories of our literature -- Paul Levy
She made portraits exact, more clairvoyant, more living than those of any writer I know -- P.N. Furbank
A work of the highest imaginative genius, with powers of perception and description unexampled in our time -- Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9780099518259
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 34mm
Weight: 376g
544 pages