The long-awaited fifth volume of The Essays of Virginia Woolf, which includes 59 of Woolf’s essays — three of them for the first time — is now out in the U.K.
Edited by Stuart N. Clarke, founding member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and editor of its journal, The Virginia Woolf Bulletin, Volume Five includes essays Woolf wrote from 1929 to 1932. Twenty-six are from The Common Reader: Second Series.
You can read one of the essays, about the love of reading, on The Guardian Web site.You can also read 95 pages of the newly published 700-page volume, here. Included in the online excerpt is Clarke’s Introduction to the volume.
Clarke was interviewed by RTÊ 1 Radio’s “The Arts Show,” and you can listen to that interview here.
The Essays of Virginia Woolf was published Jan. 15 by the Hogarth Press, a member of the Random House Group. To order a copy, click here.
Read a blurb about the book here.
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[…] the novelist to talk about what the essay is not, and yet Woolf was such a prolific and masterful essayist herself. One only has to revisit “Street Haunting” or “On Re-Reading Novels,” to name just […]
Thanks for posting about this book, I have been waiting forever it seems for further volumes in this series. I am hoping that the editor and publishers will stay strong in their committment and give us ALL of VW’s essays. I am especially looking forward to the essays from 1935 onward. I have this book on the way from the UK via Book Depository who offer free worldwide shipping.