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Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters Of Virginia Woolf
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #890460 in Books
- Published on: 1991-05-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 496 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
This selection from the six volumes of Woolf's letters follows her from earliest childhood through the suicide note she left Leonard in March 1941. Woolf is usually relaxed and high-spirited in her sprightly, inventive, entertaining letters. She seems to be performing, and the performances vary from correspondent to correspondent. Twelve of the letters are new, four public letters to magazine editors are included for the first time, and "among the new materials must be counted restoration of excerpts omitted from the complete edition for fear of hurting people." An engaging portrait of Woolf emerges from the letters (though one wonders how many engaging portraits of Woolf the world requires). Unfortunately, the editor has made cuts in most of the letters, a curious and aggravating policy.
- Keith Cushman, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Customer Reviews
A study of Woolf is incomplete without her letters
Virginia Woolf is an author of myriad voices. The letters in Congenial Spirits are selections from Woolf's letters that provide insight to what Woolf thought and felt as she wrote. If you think that you know Woolf from blurbs in anthologies or from her novels, I recommend that you spend some time with her letters and her diaries. You will discover that Woolf is much more complex than the simplistic "stream of consciosness" moniker often applied to her.
