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This book supplemented a course I took on the works of Woolf. It is filled with interesting background material and helpful character biographies. Hussey skillfully condensed volumes of biographical and critical work on Woolf into one, user-friendly manual.

Without a doubt, the finest collection of essays on V.W.'s essays. The editors are to be commended. This is not for everyone, but for the true scholar, this is extremely fine work -- particularly the first half of the introduction.

This is a watershed study by Dr. Levenback on Virginia Woolf's personal experience of World War I, and her transformation through her writing of the deep and lasting effects of The Great War on herself, the non-combatants of Britain, and the rest of the 20th century.

Sustained throughout by original research and exceptional insight, this lucidly written book brings to life Woolf's personal and intellectual response to WWI. Additionally, Dr. Levenback presents Woolf's literary use of the war via the characters in her novels in a stimulating and very enjoyable manner.

If you read one book this year about Virginia Woolf and her writing, this deserves to be the one.

It seems that phallus-worshipping white males have a lot to contend with when Jane Marcus writes another one of her marvellous books. This time she exposes the sexism of male readers who wish to make Virginia Woolf unimportant, secondary in literary (i.e., patriarchal white male writing) canons. It seems that Jane Marcus has insights into the male thought process that few other commentators have; she shows that the way males use language is entirely different from that of women, because males want competition and decending structures, while women want independence and freedom. Virginia Woolf exemplifies the courageous feminist whose radicalism is a threat to white males everywhere. I can't recommend this book highly enough- it is not only exhilerating, it is important.

I wondered what this essay collection would be about when itarrived in the mail. Additionally, would I understand it well enoughto enjoy it? Would I finish reading it because it contained interesting, creative, original, insightful, and lucid commentary? Would I prefer to keep the book?

The answer to all of the above questions is a resounding "yes".

The ten essays, all of excellent quality and very engaging, are about Virginia Woolf and her relationship/experience with 20th century communication media and machines - the cinema,cameras and photography, gramaphones, fast cars, radios and the BBC, telescopes and Zeiss binoculars, fashion magazines, mass production and books, and also our changing connection to Woolf when we connect with her writing via a PC ; her attitude toward the mechanized production of art as well the ideas of Walter Benjamin on the same; scholarily yet accessible interpretations of Woolf's (fiction and non-fiction) and Benjamin's writings on art with aura (an orginal painting has an aura and the postcard of the painting in the museum shop does not); the literary, political, artistic, intellectual, social, and personal dialogue and debate which Woolf conducted with herself and others about the birth and proliferation of these machine(gun)s, new means of (re)production, new products; and much more.

These essays are all that one would expect from the most avant-garde critics/readers of Woolf today. Thanks to the original and detailed research of the contributors and the standards of the editor, this outstanding book is well worth one's most valuable resource: time

Leslie K. Hankins' digital alteration of Man Ray's photographs of Woolf and Benjamin (along with the other illustrations in the book) makes up for the volume being issued without a dustjacket. The binding is well done as is the front cover's illustration of a phonograph from the 1920s.

Tarry not with getting this one. It will go out-of-print quickly like most of Garland's titles.

PS. I do hope that the submitted essays which did not appear in this collection will be available soon in another Woolfian publication, or at the Woolf Conference of 2000.

This compact anthology presents a fine selection of fiction and nonfiction by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. The selections of essays and memoirs are especially good, and while it can't do full justice to Woolf's longer works, this volume does include several excerpts from her best novels. If you have never read Virginia Woolf before, start with her brilliant book-length essay "A Room of One's Own" (represented here by too brief a portion) along with this anthology. And, for those who have already discovered her work, this collection makes a nice sampler and refresher - a book to pull off the shelf whenever you want to dip into that extraordinary mind (and prose) again.

Action -- little
Characters -- many
Significant ones -- few
Scenery -- drab
Dialoge -- non-existant
For those of you who desire nothing more than crawling inside someone's head and heart, this is the book for you. But don't take my word for it. (Small joke.) The second section (Time Passes) is especially delicious. True, the action is peppered among large chunks of weather words, but this only serves to make that which does occur all the more poignant. For those of you who insist on a plot, the ending will be anti-climactic. If you are of the eccentric crowd, you will be most pleased. I reccomend it highly, but only if you are of your own genus.

DeSalvo has given us something ground-breaking, heart-breaking, but above all important, in this book. This book brings so much insight into Woolf, her work, and the time in which she lived (ie V.W. as representative of the experience of other children of the time) and does it all in 305 immensely readable pages. This is that kind of fantasy bridge book that allows true readers insight into an author without first having to go and study critical theory for ten years to even get through most books about great authors! I am an avid, organic, non-academic reader and this book was excellent for me. I think it also rescues and gives Virginia Woolf to all of us, as a writer, a woman, a child, a victim of circumstance. As opposed to mad, she was one incredible artist who adapted extremely well in such an isolated and shaming time. DeSalvo you should be honored (as you were, by Kennedy Fraser's New Yorker review, which led me to you!)

If you're a woolf student this book may be useful to have a complete panorama of the critical situation on two of her major books. I used it to have a deeper insight on the two novels, especially on "The Waves" - a book on which critical judgement is not easily found - and found it perfectly responding to the needs of a higher university student.

The book presents the major critical instances on the two works in chronological order, from woolf's contemporaries up to our days. Each chapter deals with a selection of significant reviews, all of which belonging to the same period if not to the same attitude to the works. Moreover each chapter is introduced by a brief text by the curator explaining the main contents of the reviews which are going to follow and the principal critical ideas referring to a period or critical school.

In a few words: this is what you need if you want to get a deeper critical knowledge of "To the Lighthouse" and "The Waves", and to gain it in a quite short time - the book in fact is not too long, can be read quite quickly and if you're interested in getting particular pieces of information can also easily be skimmed through.