{"product_id":"genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-9780008361884","title":"Genius and Ink","description":"\u003cp\u003eFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?\n\u003cbr\u003e In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Bronte, 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 A Room of One's Own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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":"New","offer_id":43173688803571,"sku":"9780008361884","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780008361884.jpg?v=1662059462","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-9780008361884","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}