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- Rebecca GoldsteinInterview
I have two quite different careers, as a philosopher and as a novelist. It’s easier to assign three books for the first. They would be The Republic by Plato, Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes, and Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume. As far as becoming a novelist, I have no specific…
- M.T. AndersonInterview
Sure! I remember my mom giving me To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf when I was a teenager. Though it was a weird choice, I have to say it astounded me. I was big into science fiction and fantasy – but I’d never considered that one of the things prose could do was actually render the way human thought moved. I…
- Laura VanderkamInterview
I read To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf almost yearly. Something about her prose, and the Ramsay family’s drama on that windswept coast, and the wistfulness of the phrase “time passes” always draws me in. I love the image of Mrs. Ramsay lingering in the door of her dinner party, hoping to hold on to the scene even…
- A Brief History of Virginia WoolfArticle
Woolf’s next novel, “Night and Day” was published in 1919, it is a conventional novel that tells the story of a young woman, Katharine Hilbery, who is torn between two men, Ralph Denham and William Rodney. The novel was well received by critics and is considered one of her more conventional work.
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