Second-hand book "A Room of One's Own" [90% new]

Introduction · · · · · ·
"We must go on alone, and our relationship is between us and the real world, not just between us and the world of men and women."

A landmark classic in the field of feminist literature.

Susan Cuba, a well-known feminist scholar and co-author of "The Madwoman in the Attic", provides a 20,000-word introduction.

Translated by veteran translator Song Weihang, the book is supplemented with 301 notes totaling more than 50,000 words, explaining the allusions, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, metaphors and satires cited by Woolf, and introducing the writers and works mentioned in the book. It can be called an "encyclopedic translation."

A Room of One's Own is based on two speeches Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928. In 1929, Woolf combined the two speeches into one, titled "Women and Fiction", and published it in the American magazine Forum. Later, it was published as a book under the name of A Room of One's Own, which caused a sensation. The style of "Room" is humorous, eccentric, and well-cited. It uses sharp words to question the injustice and oppression of "women" as the second gender in legal history and social history, and puts forward the importance of economic foundation and independent space to women's mental freedom. There is also a wonderful discussion on the view that "great souls are hermaphrodites". Woolf encourages women to break the cage in their minds, bravely go to the outside world, cultivate free habits, and create to their heart's content.

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A Room of One's Own is included in the first collection of Moti Classics, "Shining Women". The five works selected in this collection (Little Women, Jane Eyre, A Room of One's Own, Inseparable) are of great significance in the history of women's literature. They present a historical context about women's self-discovery, enrichment and creation.

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About the Author
[British] Virginia Woolf

A world-renowned talented female writer, a great pioneer of modernism and feminism in the 20th century. She greatly innovated the English language, tried the stream-of-consciousness writing method in her novels, and tried to depict people's subconsciousness. Her representative works include Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and A Room of One's Own. The book "Room" is recognized as a landmark classic in the field of feminist literature. It proposed that "every woman should have a room of her own and an income of 500 pounds a year", which shocked the academic world with unprecedented power and was also hailed as a declaration of women's liberation.