Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks
- ISBN-10
- 0783764987
- ISBN-13
- 9780783764986
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Author
- Brenda R. Silver
Description
" An indispensable tool for those who plan to consult the notebooks themselves, the book also illuminates, brilliantly, the depth and breadth of Woolf's life-long love of reading, her passionate engagement with literary and social history
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- 1983
- 384 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
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- 1983
- 384 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
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