The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929-1932

Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush, the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf s creative genius and showcase her supreme stylistic capability. The far-ranging essays and criticism collected here include ruminations on the romantic and literary lives of William Cowper and Christina Rossetti and an introduction to memoirs by the Women s Cooperative Guild that reveals Woolf s signature feminism. This collection also includes the entirety of The Common Reader: Second Series, the sequel to The Common Reader.