Essays on the Self, Virginia Woolf (Notting Hill Editions)

Essays on the Self, Virginia Woolf (Notting Hill Editions)New Hardback Woolf's fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who 'seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended'. He is, Woolf adds,so complex, so eccentric, that we 'become dazed in the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge'. He was incapable of adopting requisite social modes, of suppressing his obsessive urge to talk, of pandering

inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry

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Pennock gives us a sweeping account of the Indigenous American presence in

James was asked by neighbour Lord Patrick Lichfield: "How on earth did you manage to sell so many magazines whilst taking so many drugs

Victoria Bennett was looking forward to new motherhood and all that was to come

along with King George V's Agent Captain Beck

Across the world

He recounts his experiences of piloting the Vulcan bomber

Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining

events will converge on board one of the King’s great warships gathered in Portsmouth harbour

Yet he stands where he is

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