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The Measure of Life : Virginia Woolf's Last Years /

This elegantly written and richly detailed biography tells the story of Virginia Woolf's last ten years, from the creation of her great visionary novel, The Waves, to her suicide in 1941. Herbert Marder looks closely at Woolf's views on totalitarianism and her depictions of Britain under s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marder, Herbert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Editorial Note
  • Prelude: The Shapes a Mind Holds
  • 1. Human Nature Undressed
  • 2. A Taste of Salt
  • 3. Lady Rosebery's Party
  • 4. God's Fist
  • 5. Ghosts: The Empty Room
  • 6. Ghosts: From the Acropolis
  • 7. Anonymity and Rhythm
  • 8. The Firing of Nelly Boxall
  • 9. Acts in a Play
  • 10. On Being Despised
  • 11. Slow Motion: The Years
  • 12. An Inch of the Pattern: The Years
  • 13. Antigone's Daughters
  • 14. A Purple Background
  • 15. To the Altar
  • 16. Weeping Willie
  • 17. Oblivion and Water
  • 18. Time Passes
  • Appendix: The Wilberforce Letters
  • Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index