Selected Diaries
  • Published: 1 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099518259
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $32.99

Selected Diaries

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A moving, perceptive and beautifully written insight into the workings of the mind of one of the best loved and most admired writers of the twentieth century.

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit. The result is one of the greatest diaries in the English language.
  • Published: 1 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099518259
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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Praise for Selected Diaries

Her nephew Quentin Bell claims that the thirty volumes of Woolf's diary are a masterpiece.Anne Olivier Bell has reduced them to a single volume. It think it is still a masterpiece

A.S. Byatt, Evening Standard

One of the glories of our literature

Paul Levy

She made portraits exact, more clairvoyant, more living than those of any writer I know

P.N. Furbank

A work of the highest imaginative genius, with powers of perception and description unexampled in our time

Isaiah Berlin

More alive than most living voices

Claire Tomalin

I stick by the old heresy, that Woolf’s diary is her greatest achievement. An enthrallingly uncensored portrait of a brilliantly perceptive mind as it moves through a fascinating world in complex times

Alan Hollinghurst, New York Times
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