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by: Virginia Woolf  EAN: 9780151255993 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0151255997 Label: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: October 01, 1980 Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Studio: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: An account of Woolf's life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. "Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose...make this a most valuable and pleasurable book" (Publishers Weekly). "Volume three is as witty and intelligent as its predecessors" (Atlantic Monthly). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index. Average Rating:
 Rating: - and the story continues...Laughed at my hat, worry about clothes, Wells, Vita, Eliot, Ethel, Carrington, Hardy, Yeats, and all the regulars; new oil stove (one turns a dial and it has a thermometer!) books writing and re-writing, selling, stress, the usual depression when books published (but oh how exciting it is to read about) ;lots of feelings recorded, writing a profound pleasure, fame, money, happiness, foreshadow; on it goes in this third volume of the diaries .This wonderful, genius, enchanting, page-turner diary. ... Read More Rating: - Simply beautifulOf all of Virginia's diaries (there are five volumes), volumes 3 and 4 are perhaps the most interesting, if only because they span the period in which she wrote her classics such as Orlando, To The Lighthouse, and The Waves (which itself literally spans the period between Vol 3 and Vol 4.) If you read the collected Diaries and Woman Of Letters by Phyllis Rose, you will gain a vital series of insights into the life and thoughts of this most haunting of female writers. Whenever ... Read More 
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