Editions

Selected Letters

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099518242

  • Length: 496  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 341g

  • RRP: £12.99

Selected Letters

EDITED BY JOANNE TRAUTMANN BANKS, WITH A PREFACE BY HERMIONE LEE

The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvellous collection - spontaneous, witty, often flirtatious and powerfully moving. Whether bemoaning some domestic travail, commenting publicly on the state of the nation, or discussing cultural, artistic or personal concerns, Virginia Woolf is one of the great correspondents. This volume displays not only Woolf's courage and brilliance, her generosity and love of gossip, but also her genius for close and enduring friendship.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099518242

  • Length: 496  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 341g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • About her letters there can be no division: they are among the best ever written in the English language

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Letters as well selected as these, and as brilliant, close the gap between the author and the private person

    The Times

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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