This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with w…

Virginia Woolf
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. ✨ A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. ✨ A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)

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