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    Virginia Woolf on the Ghost Stories of Henry James
    Virginia Woolf on the Ghost Stories of Henry James
    Virginia Woolf on the Ghost Stories of Henry James
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    Virginia Woolf on the Ghost Stories of Henry James

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    First published in 1940, this volume contains a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf on the subject of Henry James and his work. Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-British author generally considered to be one of the greatest novelists in the English language. He produced a large corpus of articles and books of criticism, travel, biography, and autobiography, playing an important role in the transition from literary realism to literary modernism. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s, her works having inspired countless women to take up the cause. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. Contents include: “Henry James”, “The Old Order”, “Within the Rim”, and “The Letters of Henry James”. Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly republishing this collection of classic essays now complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateFeb 16, 2017
    ISBN9781473363137
    Virginia Woolf on the Ghost Stories of Henry James
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    Virginia Woolf

    VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando.

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      VIRGINIA WOOLF

      on the

      GHOST STORIES

      of

      HENRY JAMES

      By

      VIRGINIA WOOLF

      First published in 1940

      Copyright © 2021 Read & Co. Classics

      This edition is published by Read & Co. Classics,

      an imprint of Read & Co.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any

      way without the express permission of the publisher in writing.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library.

      Read & Co. is part of Read Books Ltd.

      For more information visit

      www.readandcobooks.co.uk

      HENRY JAMES

      Who comes to-night? We ope the doors in vain.

      Who comes? My bursting walls, can you contain

      The presences that now together throng

      Your narrow entry, as with flowers and song,

      As with the air of life, the breath of talk?

      Lo, how these fair immaculate women walk

      Behind their jocund maker; and we see

      Slighted De Mauves, and that far different she,

      Gressie, the trivial sphynx; and to our feast

      Daisy and Barb and Chancellor (she not least!)

      With all their silken, all their airy kin,

      Do like unbidden angels enter in.

      But he, attended by these shining names,

      Comes (best of all) himself—our welcome James.

      —Robert Louis Stevenson

      Contents

      Virginia Woolf

      Henry James

      THE OLD ORDER

      Written in 1917

      WITHIN THE RIM

      Written in 1919

      THE LETTERS OF HENRY JAMES

      Written in 1920

      Virginia Woolf

      Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in Kensington, London, England in 1882. Her father, Leslie Stephen, was a respected man of letters, and as a young girl Woolf was introduced to many literary figures, including Henry James. Woolf also made great use of the family home's vast library, working her way through much of the English literary canon as a teenager. Her summers were spent in St. Ives, Cornwall, which would later form the setting for her famous novel, To the Lighthouse.

      In 1895, when Woolf was just thirteen, her mother died, triggering the first of her many mental breakdowns. Despite this, between 1897 and 1901 she was able to take courses in Greek, Latin, German and history at the Ladies’ Department of King’s College London. She even began publishing work with the Times Literary Supplement. However, in 1904, following the death of her father, Woolf suffered another breakdown which saw her briefly institutionalised.

      Following her discharge, Woolf and her sisters moved from their family home to a new abode in Bloomsbury. It was here that Woolf met Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster

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