{"product_id":"woolf-virginia-how-shouldpb","title":"[03\/16\/27] Woolf, Virginia: How Should One Read a Book?","description":"\u003cp\u003eYale University Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 16, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTen of Virginia Woolf's most beloved essays in a new edition, introduced by Meghan O'Rourke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf is renowned as a novelist, but she was a prolific and gifted essayist and literary critic as well. She wrote on \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e and Jane Austen, on Daniel Defoe and Laurence Sterne, on war and feminism, aiming her work at the \"common reader.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1926 and 1939, Woolf wrote ten essays--on the pleasures of writing, reading, and walking--for publication in the \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, including the now-classic pieces \"Street Haunting: A London Adventure,\" \"Letter to a Young Poet,\" and \"How Should One Read a Book?\" (\"To read a book well,\" Woolf wrote, \"one should read it as if one were writing it.\") Here is Woolf at her critical best--incisive, lyric, and mercurial in turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese ten essays have now been gathered in a striking edition introduced by Meghan O'Rourke, editor of the \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45361785077783,"sku":"9780300283471","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9780300283471.jpg?v=1791062863","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/woolf-virginia-how-shouldpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}