Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature

by Virginia Woolf

Book Overview

Nonfiction pieces dating from 1904, when she was twenty-three, to 1912, the year of her marriage to Leonard Woolf. "These are polished works of literary journalism-shrewd, deft, inquisitive, graceful,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151290555
• ISBN13: 9780151290550
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Reading reviews

Reading a book of reviews is an odd experience. Many of the works reviewed here were then contemporary novels and biographies which have since faded from popular knowledge. One is more interested in what Virginia Woolf had to say about these books than the books themselves. Admittedly, Woolf's writing style was more straight-forward journalistic than the ingenious panache of later years. However, scattered here and there were gems of literary flair which showcased the writer's maturing voice. As a glimpse of Virginia Woolf before her fame, this is a worthwhile collection.