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Title details for A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - Available

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf
Juliet Stevenson
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"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction . . ." First published in 1929, A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute polemic, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Shakespeare's talented, intelligent sister, Woolf makes the topic an enjoyable journey through her imagination, filling in for the undocumented in female history, and exploring the loss to the literary landscape in her own entertaining, convincing prose.

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  • Release date

    August 3, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781907416903
      • File size: 145403 KB
      • Duration: 05:02:55

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 1150
    • Text Difficulty: 8-9

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Another in Penguin's Virginia Woolf series featuring Atkins. This 1929 essay is perhaps the author's most important work--part feminist manifesto, part literary theory and part personal reflection presaging her suicide. However intriguing on the page, a treatise of this length can easily bore a listener. But Atkins, celebrated for her one-woman play based on this work, never allows the complexity of Woolf's ideas to get the better of her. Instead, she uses the superb writing and rich intellectual capital to best advantage. If she errs, it's in giving the narrative personality greater maturity than is warranted. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:1150
  • Text Difficulty:8-9

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