A selection of twenty-nine essays. \"[Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating.... Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint for the steel of her uncanny intuitions to strike on\" (Cyril Connolly, New Yorker). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.