Flush

"Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's eponymous cocker spaniel, charting the dog's early days in the countryside, his adoption by the famous poet, his subsequent life in London and his travels with his owners to Italy.

While the resulting narrative is light-hearted and playful on the surface, Woolf ingeniously uses the faux-naif impressions of her animal narrator to voice her social criticism on topics such as the class system and the relationship between man and woman. Much like its predecessor Orlando, Flush is a genre-defying blend of biography and fantasy, and an accessible yet stylistically innovative jeu d'esprit."

About the author

The most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a novelist, essayist and critic. Her writing established her as one of Modernism's leading exponents, as well as a pioneering feminist. Her most famous works include To the Lighthouse, Orlando and Mrs Dalloway.

Summary

Flush is a genre-defying blend of biography and fantasy, and an accessible yet stylistically innovative jeu d'esprit.

Foreword

Flush is a genre-defying blend of biography and fantasy, and an accessible yet stylistically innovative jeu d'esprit.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Woolf, WOOLF VIRGINIA
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781847498106
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-810-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Alma Classics; Alma Classics 101 Pages; Alma Classics; Alma Classics 101 Pages; 101 Pages; 101 Pages
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Animals, biographical; biography; dog