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Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography
By Maria DiBattista

Who’s afraid of a critical biography of Virginia Woolf? When it comes to literary criticism of the works of the English writer, the question surrounding Maria DiBattista’s “experiment” is more fittingly: Who’s afraid of the Author, the Critic, the World Writer, the Adventurer and the youthful Sibyl of the Drawing Room? For the subject of Imagining Virginia Woolf is not so much Virginia Woolf — the person who wrote the novels, criticism, letters, and famous diary — but a different being altogether, someone or something DiBattista identifies as "the figment of the author," the literary personality who lives intermittently in the pages of her writings and in the imagination of her readers.

Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy
By George C. Edwards, Martin P. Wattenberg, Robert L. Lineberry

A. Lincoln: A Biography
By Ronald C. White Jr.

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