I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.
— Virginia Woolf Modern

Modernist novelist

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Letter to Vita Sackville-West

Date / Period

1929

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Strange & Unusual

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https://archive.org/details/lettersofvirgini0000wool

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