โ Scribed by Virginia Woolf
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Woolf's first distinctly modernist novel follows an aloof yet beloved young man from his childhood through his student days to his too-early death during World War I.
Annotated and with an introduction by Vara Neverow
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A generous Contexts section provides extracts from Woolf 's diaries and letters as well as comments on the novel from her fellow writers and friends, among them E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. Also included are the short stories The Mark on the Wall, Kew Gardens, and An Unwritten Novel, which Woolf v