A Room of One's Own

Hardback

Main Details

Title A Room of One's Own
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Virginia Woolf
SeriesPenguin Pocket Hardbacks
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 174,Width 113
Category/GenreLiterary essays
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141395920
ClassificationsDewey:305.420941
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 6 November 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas A Room of One's Own, Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister, remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

Author Biography

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.