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Are Too Many Books Written and Published?

2006; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 121; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1632/003081206x129846

1938-1530

Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Melba Cuddy‐Keane,

Themes in Literature Analysis

In July 1927, Virginia Woolf participated in the first of three broadcasts she presented on the BBC. “Are too many Books Written and Published?” was a collaborative project, scripted jointly with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in the typical BBC format of the conversational debate. Virginia was not entirely comfortable in front of a radio microphone, feeling as she did the constrictions of prescribed time limits, the BBC's conventional respectability, and even the sound of her own voice. Yet she engaged in this program with a liveliness, a good humor, and an inventiveness that display her public persona at its best.