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Name: Virginia Woolf
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: King, James

James King offers a comprehensive portrait of Virginia Woolf, linking her turbulent personal history to the full range of her creative output—novels, essays, reviews, letters, and diaries. The biography examines how Woolf’s continuous battle with depression and fascination with death informed her writing, while also highlighting her search for forms that could express a new feminist aesthetic. By investigating the everyday experiences that became the raw material for her art, King sheds fresh light on Woolf’s relentless pursuit of language that captures both the fragility and vitality of life.

First publish date: 1994

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: King, James

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