Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 169
... Dalloway , Rhoda in The Waves , commit suicide simply because they feel they cannot otherwise escape such a violation , and in a strange and significant passage of Mrs. Dalloway the heroine bursts out in shuddering diatribe against love ...
... Dalloway , Rhoda in The Waves , commit suicide simply because they feel they cannot otherwise escape such a violation , and in a strange and significant passage of Mrs. Dalloway the heroine bursts out in shuddering diatribe against love ...
Page 170
... Dalloway Virginia Woolf fails to convince us of the reality of Rezia's grief when her husband kills himself . At other times she attempts , unsuccessfully , to draw characters in the objective external convention of the traditional ...
... Dalloway Virginia Woolf fails to convince us of the reality of Rezia's grief when her husband kills himself . At other times she attempts , unsuccessfully , to draw characters in the objective external convention of the traditional ...
Page 174
... Dalloway advanced , light , tall , very upright , to be greeted at once by button - faced Miss Pym , whose hands were always bright red , as if they had been stood in cold water with the flowers . There were flowers : delphiniums ...
... Dalloway advanced , light , tall , very upright , to be greeted at once by button - faced Miss Pym , whose hands were always bright red , as if they had been stood in cold water with the flowers . There were flowers : delphiniums ...
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