A Writer's Diary

372 pages

English language

Published March 31, 2003 by Harvest/HBJ Book.

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978-0-15-602791-5
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Extracts from Virginia Woolf's diaries, selected by her husband Leonard Woolf. The extracts deal with her reading and writing, and describe the progress of her novels and other works in the period from 1919 to 1941, when she died. Why is it that I often find diaries and biographies of writers so much more interesting than the books they write? Certainly the case with V. Woolf. I tried reading her [b:Jacob's room|225396|Jacob's Room|Virginia Woolf|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388466257s/225396.jpg|3272732], but gave up after a few chapters. I did manage to findish [b:The Waves|46114|The Waves|Virginia Woolf|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1385233847s/46114.jpg|6057263] though.

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