{"product_id":"9780008355746","title":"Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \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\u003cp\u003eThe collection of essays in Genius and Ink showcases Woolf's criticism at its best, offering a unique insight into her thought process and the influences behind her own works. As a top biography of literature itself, it serves as an autobiography of Woolf's literary journey, highlighting her interactions with the works of other great authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Sylvia Plath (The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath), James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time), Albert Camus (Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays), General Press (The Time Machine), and Franz Kafka (The Diaries of Franz Kafka).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Woolf, Read by Olivia Dowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889040478357,"sku":"9780008355746","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008355746.png?v=1777422789","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008355746","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}