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... Virginia Woolf made this pronouncement at Cam- bridge in 1924 to the undergraduate audience of her lec- ture Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown , she was not being whimsical ; she was violently overstating a fact in order to shock her listeners ...
... Virginia Woolf made this pronouncement at Cam- bridge in 1924 to the undergraduate audience of her lec- ture Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown , she was not being whimsical ; she was violently overstating a fact in order to shock her listeners ...
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... Virginia Woolf's novels is this very ques- tion ; when one thinks in the abstract of a typical Virginia Woolf character one seems to see a tiny figure on tiptoe eagerly grasping a buttefly net alert to snare the signifi- cant , the ...
... Virginia Woolf's novels is this very ques- tion ; when one thinks in the abstract of a typical Virginia Woolf character one seems to see a tiny figure on tiptoe eagerly grasping a buttefly net alert to snare the signifi- cant , the ...
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... Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . What happens in a Virginia Woolf novel is on the face of it unimportant . In Mrs. Dalloway a fashionable lady gives a party , a man ...
... Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . What happens in a Virginia Woolf novel is on the face of it unimportant . In Mrs. Dalloway a fashionable lady gives a party , a man ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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