5 best-selling nonfiction books like Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing by Virginia Woolf

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Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

By: Virginia Woolf

4.22

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. In "Reminiscences," the f…

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

"There was a spectator in me who, even while I squirmed and obeyed, remained observant, note taking for some future revision."

-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

"There was a spectator in me who, even while I squirmed and obeyed, remained observant, note taking for some future revision."

-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing by Virginia Woolf , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Crossing the Water

By: Sylvia Plath

4.11

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative per… read more

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  • literature
  • feminism
  • classics
"ama asıl son kez yattığımda bilinecek değerim: ağaçlar dokunabilir o zaman, bana ayıracak zamanları olur çiçeklerin."

-Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water

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2. Kulinaarsed vested (Loomingu Raamatukogu, #40/2014)

By: Carl Mothander , Anu Saluäär , Torkel Jansson

0.00

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

,,Parunite, eestlaste ja enamlaste" ning ,,Rootsi kuninga valge laeva" autor, Eesti Vabadussojast o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Prelude

By: William Boyd , Katherine Mansfield

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of Katherine Mansfield's most important works, Prelude established her reputation as a master o… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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4. Quartet

By: Jean Rhys

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

Aperitifs in smoky Montparnasse cafes, cheap hotel rooms, and Marya Zelli, trying to make of her li… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
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5. The Uses of Literacy

By: Richard Hoggart

3.74

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in respon… read more

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  • nonfiction

6. Virginia Woolf: A Biography

By: Quentin Bell

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The first full-scale biography of the eminent British writer, written by her nephew. Index; photogr… read more

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  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann , Michael Bienert

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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8. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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  • classics
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9. Save Me the Waltz

By: Zelda Fitzgerald , Harry T. Moore

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

One of the great literary curios of the 20th century, Save Me the Waltzis the first and only novel … read more

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  • literature
  • classics

10. Lectures on Literature

By: John Updike , Vladimir Nabokov , Fredson Bowers

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the d… read more

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11. The Man Without Qualities

By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike

4.19

Format: 1774 pages, Paperback

Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!"

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

"Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen."

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

"[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!"

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

"Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben."

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

12. The Aspern Papers

By: Henry James

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some let… read more

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13. Petersburg

By: Andrei Bely , Robert A. Maguire , None

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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14. PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 3

By: Naoki Urasawa , Osamu Tezuka , Frederik L. Schodt , Takashi Nagasaki , None , None , None

4.42

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to … read more

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15. The Wise Virgins

By: Leonard Woolf , Victoria Glendinning

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

The Wise Virgins(1914), Leonard Woolf's second novel, was published two years after the author's ma… read more

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16. Speak, Memory

By: Vladimir Nabokov

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of en… read more

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17. Good Morning, Midnight

By: Jean Rhys

3.87

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more

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  • literature
  • feminism
  • classics
"Quite like old times,' the room says."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"And then the days came when I was alone."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

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18. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

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  • feminism
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

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19. Lõikejoon (Loomingu Raamatukogu, #1-2/2024)

By: Carolina Pihelgas

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Noor naine Liine sõidab üksinda maale, tal on vaja vaadata iseendasse, et tõmmata joon alla mürgise… read more

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20. Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

By: Virginia Woolf

4.22

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. In "Reminiscences," the f… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • literature
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

"There was a spectator in me who, even while I squirmed and obeyed, remained observant, note taking for some future revision."

-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

"If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory."

-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

"These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important."

-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

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21. De mierenkaravaan

By: Mariken Heitman

4.32

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

Voor de veertigjarige Kiek is haar werk op de tuinderij onlosmakelijk verbonden met haar leven. Sam… read more

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Sylvia Plath

4.11

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4.00

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3.95

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4.00

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John Updike , F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.96

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4.23

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