Woolf's lively reviews

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19870503
Author:Hope Cooke

The Essays of Virginia WoolfVol. 1: 1904-1912. Edited by Andrew McNellie. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $19.95.

E.M. Forster once declared a novel of Virginia Woolf a work of "beautiful, droning, gasping and inspired breathlessness that trusts to luck."

Woolf's own book reviews of 1904-1912 (as collected, together with a few essays, by Andrew McNellie) are more generous - and the opposite of breathless and luck-dependent. Each piece in this volume (the first of a projected six of reviews and essays that will record the author's intellectual and professional life from her apprentice years ...

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