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Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde

"An ambitious account of her major writings in relation to important currents in British intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, this book explores Virginia Woolf's voyages, toward "new lands," "new civilisations" from her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her last, Between the Acts."—Jacket.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 456 pages

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