Editions

Selected Diaries

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099518259

  • Length: 544  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 373g

  • RRP: £12.99

Selected Diaries

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit. The result is one of the greatest diaries in the English language.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099518259

  • Length: 544  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 373g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • Her nephew Quentin Bell claims that the thirty volumes of Woolf's diary are a masterpiece.Anne Olivier Bell has reduced them to a single volume. It think it is still a masterpiece

    A.S. Byatt, Evening Standard

  • I stick by the old heresy, that Woolf’s diary is her greatest achievement. An enthrallingly uncensored portrait of a brilliantly perceptive mind as it moves through a fascinating world in complex times

    Alan Hollinghurst, New York Times

  • One of the glories of our literature

    Paul Levy

  • She made portraits exact, more clairvoyant, more living than those of any writer I know

    P.N. Furbank

  • A work of the highest imaginative genius, with powers of perception and description unexampled in our time

    Isaiah Berlin

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About the Author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

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