{"product_id":"9780008355739_genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read","title":"Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of its existence, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad: all are here, in anonymously published pieces, in which may be glimpsed the thinking behind Woolf’s works of fiction and the enquiring, feminist spirit of \u003cem\u003eA Room of One’s Own\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is Woolf the critical essayist, offering, at one moment, a playful hypothesis and, at another, a judgement laid down with the authority of a twentieth-century Dr Johnson. Here is Woolf working out precisely what’s great about Hardy, and how Elizabeth Barrett Browning made books a “substitute for living” because she was “forbidden to scamper on the grass”. Above all, here is Virginia Woolf the reader, whose enthusiasm for great literature remains palpable and inspirational today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Woolf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285263630485,"sku":"9780008355739","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008355739.jpg?v=1776992330","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008355739_genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}