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1) Orlando
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A poet lives for more than three centuries, becomes a woman, and ages only twenty years in this classic fantastical work by the author of Mrs. Dalloway.
Orlando begins their story as a melancholy sixteen-year-old nobleman and poet who spends their days in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, who takes a shine to them. Love, passion, and heartbreak guide Orlando's life through two more kings. In their thirties, Orlando becomes an ambassador to Turkey...
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In her journals and writing exercises, this novelist “comes to us with all the brilliance, perceptiveness, and restraint we could wish” (Kirkus Reviews).
From 1918 to 1941, even as she penned masterpiece upon masterpiece, Virginia Woolf kept a diary. She poured into it her thoughts, feelings, concerns, objections, interests, and disappointments—resulting in twenty-six volumes that give unprecedented insight into...
From 1918 to 1941, even as she penned masterpiece upon masterpiece, Virginia Woolf kept a diary. She poured into it her thoughts, feelings, concerns, objections, interests, and disappointments—resulting in twenty-six volumes that give unprecedented insight into...
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Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.
Dialogue and descriptions of thought and actions are used in equal amount, unlike in Woolf's later book, To the Lighthouse. There are four major characters, Katharine Hilbery,...
Dialogue and descriptions of thought and actions are used in equal amount, unlike in Woolf's later book, To the Lighthouse. There are four major characters, Katharine Hilbery,...
4) The Waves
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The Waves by an English writer, who is considered as one of the most important modernist 20th Century authors and also a pioneer in the use of the stream of consciousness as a narrative device, Virginia Woolf.
It is an experimental novel which is considered a key text of the Modernist literary movement. Interspersed with lyrical descriptions of waves breaking against the shoreline, the novel traces the intertwining lives of six friends from childhood...
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En La señora Dalloway Virginia Woolf relata un día en la vida de Clarissa Dalloway, una señora de la clase alta casada con un miembro del parlamento inglés, y de un ex-combatiente que lucha contra su enfermedad mental. La historia comienza y termina en Londres, en un mismo día de junio de 1923, y se desarrolla desde el momento en que Clarissa está preparando una fiesta en su mansión hasta que se retiran los invitados.
La gran innovación de...
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A collection of essays from the acclaimed author of Mrs. Dalloway on such subjects as Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, and her own literary philosophy.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Not written for scholars or critics, these essays are a collection of Virginia Woolf's everyday thoughts about literature and the world-and the art of reading...
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The annotated edition of the renowned author's last novel: a tale of an English village celebrating the nation's history as WWII looms.
Between the Acts takes place on a June day in 1939 at Pointz Hall, the Oliver family's country house in the heart of England. In the garden, everyone from the village has gathered to present the annual pageant—scenes from the history of England starting with the Middle Ages. As the story of England unfolds,...
Between the Acts takes place on a June day in 1939 at Pointz Hall, the Oliver family's country house in the heart of England. In the garden, everyone from the village has gathered to present the annual pageant—scenes from the history of England starting with the Middle Ages. As the story of England unfolds,...
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Klassikerinnen neu entdeckt von Schriftstellerinnen der Gegenwart
Einer der berühmtesten Romane der englischen Literatur erzählt einen Tag im Leben der Clarissa Dalloway – und zugleich ein ganzes Leben voller Leerstellen und in engen Grenzen.
"›Change‹ heißen die Wechseljahre auf Englisch. Und in diesem Zeichen – change –, in dem Zeichen, sich zu verändern, verändern zu müssen, steht Clarissa Dalloway." (Ulrike Draesner)
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Mrs. Dalloway takes place over the course of a single day in a woman's life in 1920's London. There are flowers to buy, outfits to choose, but also, a visit from a past lover, and the tragic fate of a young war veteran who cannot adjust to life in post-war London. Virginia Woolf's supple and mesmerizing account of an ordinary day draws the reader into the minds, perceptions, and emotions of an astonishingly varied and vivid cast of characters. Woolf...
11) The Voyage Out
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The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out—together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Published to acclaim in England in 1915 and in America five years later, The Voyage Out marks Woolf's beginning as one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers.
Less formally experimental than her later novels, The Voyage Out none-theless...
Less formally experimental than her later novels, The Voyage Out none-theless...
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Einer der berühmtesten Romane der englischen Literatur schildert einen einzigen Tag im Leben einer Frau – und fasst zugleich die Tiefe eines ganzen Lebens voller Leerstellen und in engen Grenzen: An einem warmen Junitag im Jahr 1923 spaziert Clarissa Dalloway über die Bond Street, um Blumen für ihre bevorstehende Abendgesellschaft zu kaufen. Die Glockenschläge von Big Ben begleiten ihren Tag, ihr Wiedersehen mit dem Jugendfreund Peter Walsh,...
13) Essays
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Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings 22 of best essays of Virginia Woolf, across a wide range of subjects, including writing, feminism, Jane Austen, literature, poetry and many more topics.
The book contains the following texts:
Introduction by Edmund Gosse
The Modern Essay
A Room of One's Own
Modern Fiction
How Should One Read A Book?
How It Strikes...
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Jus publica por fin en castellano una versión íntegra y sin censuras que incluye varias cartas inéditas descubiertas en años recientes de la correspondencia que mantuvieron por veinticinco años Virginia Woolf y Lytton Strachey. Aquí juzgan con agudeza sus propias obras y las ajenas, se elogian y se trituran, intercambian chismes maliciosos, hablan del (mal) tiempo, cuentan anécdotas mordaces, se burlan de las extravagancias ajenas y examinan...
16) Orlando
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Virginia Woolf: Orlando—Geschichte eines Lebens Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert und mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung. Voll verlinkt, mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und zahlreichen Erklärungen zeittypischer Ausdrücke.
Virginia Woolf schickt ihren Helden auf einen Parforceritt durch Raum, Zeit, soziale Milieus und sogar Geschlechterrollen. Geboren im 16. Jahrhundert als Adeliger in London, verschlägt es Orlando nach Konstantinopel. Dort...
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Lytton Strachey fue el crítico literario por excelencia del final de la época victoriana; Virginia Woolf ya había escrito cuatro de sus grandes novelas (El cuarto de Jacob, La señora Dalloway, Orlando y Al faro); y ambos brillaban con luz propia en el muy exigente Círculo de Bloomsbury.
A lo largo de veinticinco años, mediante la correspondencia que reúne este volumen, juzgaron con agudeza sus propias obras y las ajenas, se elogiaron y trituraron,...
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"The Common Reader" is a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf, published initially in two parts in 1925 and 1935. As the title suggests, the essays are intended for the average reader and deal with a variety of literary topics presented in layman's terms. The first series deals with various authors including Geoffrey Chaucer, Jane Austen, and Joseph Conrad; together with pieces on the Greek language and the modern essay. In the second series,...
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"Woolf on Women" is a collection of Virginia Woolf's essays about women (fictional, historical and those Woolf knew personally) and about how women should live. This compilation features essays that were published between 1924 and 1941 (the year of Woolf's death) and includes work that was published posthumously. This book allows readers to catch a glimpse into Woolf's mind, particularly her political, social and socio-economic opinions. It contains...
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