A Room of One’s Own
$32.00
- Hardcover
168 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2025
Summary
A Room of One’s Own: A Plea for Freedom
In this influential work of non-fiction, Virginia Woolf outlines what women need to fully make use of their abilities. This Contemporary Classics hardcover edition presents Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts.
Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments—such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not—Woolf analyzes th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594255 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594253 |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf, Merve Emre |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 282g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 131mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (Author)
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.
Merve Emre (Introducer)
Merve Emre is a professor at Wesleyan University, where she is also the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Bookforum, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Baffler, n+1, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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