Collins Classics HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind..." Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, "A Room of One"s Own" interweaves Woolf"s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare"s gifted (and imaginary) sister. "Three Guineas", Woolf"s most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity. This volume combines two inspirational, witty and urbane essays from one of literature"s pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality.