STREET HAUNTING

Virginia Woolf born in 1882 was the major novelist at the heart of the interwar Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out Night and Day and Jacobs Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces including Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism journalism and biography including the passionate feminist essay A Room of Ones Own. Suffering from depression she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas and essays from the worlds greatest writers designed by the awardwinning Coralie BickfordSmith.The hour should be evening and the season winter for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful. In such conditions Virginia Woolf takes to Londons streets in search of a pencil. The account of her journey the people the places the pleasure soon becomes one of the great paeans to city life. This collection also includes other wonderful essays such as How Should One Read a Book? and The Sun and the Fish.One of the great writers of the twentieth century GuardianGB