Summary
Virginia Woolf: Anatomy of Fiction and Other Essays
Virginia Woolf was one of the leading figures of the modernist literary movement. Her essays explore new literary techniques and forms. She also tried her hand at literary criticism, in addition to contributing to storytelling and writing essays, standing out for her perspicacity and originality. This selection of essays, spanning a wide range of time, contains her reflections on the greats of the literary world, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas de Quincey, George Eliot and others whose works she admired. The book is completed by her search for the interweaving of literary fiction, travel prose from a train trip to Greece, Constantinople and Florence, and fantastic depictions of London.
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