{"product_id":"a-room-of-ones-own-9780593688632","title":"A Room of One's Own","description":"\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments--such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not--Woolf analyzes the many ways in which women have been held back throughout history and still are in her own time. First published in 1929, \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e has been a towering and inspirational statement of feminist principles for nearly a century--and remains relevant now, at a time of growing awareness of the kind of social injustices that she decried.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own, \u003c\/i\u003e and other acclaimed novels, including \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOrlando.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Introducer: \u003c\/b\u003e LAUREN GROFF is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatrix\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/i\u003e, and the short story collections \u003ci\u003eDelicate Edible Birds \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFlorida.\u003c\/i\u003e She has won the Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Groff 's work regularly appears in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50877897867538,"sku":"9780593688632","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_820770fd-eb0a-4b35-8e87-626077601e0d.jpg?v=1776157521","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-room-of-ones-own-9780593688632","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}