The Unknown Virginia Woolf

by Roger Poole

Book Overview

Since its first publication in 1978, Roger Poole's The Unknown Virginia Woolf has achieved recognition as one of the classic studies of Woolf's life and work. Poole revised the conventional view of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521219876
• ISBN13: 9780521219877
• Release Date: September 1978
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Virginia Woolf was not "mad"

In this exelent book, Roger Poole studies Virginia Woolf's personality, discarding any kind of mental ilness. The book is a profound research, based on Virginia Woolf's literature, as well as other testimonies of the ones close to her. Poole defends Woolf's mental health, very interesting book for those who want to understand what was really happening inside Woolf's head. The book is well written and includes a very interesting study on Virginia Woolf's suicide note.