Essays on the Self

Written between 1919, when Woolf was thirty-seven, and 1940, when she was fifty-eight, this extraordinary selection of essays includes discussions about the rights of women, the revolutions of modernity, the past, present and future of the novel and the inequalities and agonies of war. It covers a period in Woolf’s life when her opinions and her circumstances changed. She was not a fixed entity, reiterating a rigid and immaculate position each time she picked up her pen, but at the heart of each essay is a singular preoccupation to do with the nature of the finite self: ‘Who am I?’ and, of course, ‘Who is everybody else?’ Book