{"product_id":"how-should-one-read-a-virginia-woolf-9780300283471","title":"How Should One Read a Book?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTen of Virginia Woolf's most beloved essays in a new edition, introduced by Meghan O'Rourke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Virginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300283474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300283471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Virginia Woolf","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173245591807,"sku":"9780300283471","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-should-one-read-a-virginia-woolf-9780300283471","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}