Street Haunting and Other Essays
  • Published: 1 December 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099589778
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99

Street Haunting and Other Essays

Formats & editions
EBook
2 Oct 2014
Paperback
1 Dec 2014
Buy from…
Amazon Booktopia Dymocks QBD Readings Your Bookstore Abbeys Boomerang Find local retailers Find local retailers Collins Fishpond Gleebooks Harry Hartog Kinokuniya Robinsons The Nile Mighty Ape

An exclusive collection of Virginia Woolf's most entertaining, thought-provoking and infectiously witty essays

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating glimpse, which display the gifts of a dazzling social and literary critic as well as the development of a brilliant and influential novelist. From reflections on class and education, to slyly ironic reviews, musings on the lives of great men and 'Street Haunting', a superlative tour of her London neighbourhood, this is Woolf at her most thoughtful and entertaining.
  • Published: 1 December 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099589778
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

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.

Also by Virginia Woolf

Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Mrs Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins
See all

Praise for Street Haunting and Other Essays

Brilliant and subtle essays

Independent on Sunday

It is all pure Woolf, so distinctive is her voice - ironic, cool, conversational and playful, shrewd and fantastical by turns

Literary Review

Woolf was easily the greatest literary journalist of her age

James Wood, Guardian

More like novels than ordinary criticism

New Statesman

Filled with comic spirit...there are some beautiful essays here...and many memorable ones

Peter Ackroyd, New York Times
penguin pop image
penguin pop image