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Article: Woolf's lively reviews
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- May 3, 1987
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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 ...