Article: Woolf's lively reviews

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 through maturity) is solid thought, exquisitely delineated.

The most remarkable impression given by ...

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