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HOW SHOULD ONE READ A BOOK BY VIRGINIA WOOLF( On Reading Books summary)

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Satavahana University Karimnagar- Degree English semester-2( old syllabus text) SRR Govt.Arts& Science College Karimnagar englishlanguage-lit.blogspot.com HOW SHOULD ONE READ A BOOK-  (ON READING BOOKS) VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a famous novelist and critic of the twentieth century. Her famous novels are Mrs. Dalloway , To the Lighthouse   and Orlando . She is also well known for her essays A Room of One’s Own , and The Second Common Reader . She employed “ Stream of Consciousness “ a fictional technique   in her novels. Stream of Conscious Technique is a mode of narration that involves the full spectrum and continuous flow of a character’s mental process.  Woolf suffered from poor mental health and committed suicide in 1941. Dongari Mallaiah, also known as Ampasayya Naveen, was the first to use this narrative mode in telugu literature in his novel Ampasayya Woolf recommendations on how to read a book The present essay “On Reading Boo...