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Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 02-02-09
- Language: English
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Regular price: $13.96
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Publisher's Summary
A highly sensitive and intelligent child, Virginia Woolf grew up in a large family prone to psychological instability. Throughout her life, she was subject to periods of mental breakdown, yet when she was lucid she was capable of a uniquely perceptive and frank introspection. Under the influence of the Bloomsbury Group and their progressive social attitudes, she became experimental in her life and art, breaking with convention to produce some of the finest and most unique literary works of the 20th century.
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Would you try another book from Paul Strathern and/or Robert Whitfield?
Filled with psychoanalytic speculation presented as "facts." Dreadful, content wise, although the narration was pure BBC.
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