London: Daunt Books Publishing, 2013. — 96 p. — ISBN: 9781907970429. Take a stroll through London with Virginia Woolf as your guide in this beautifully illustrated book.Virginia Woolf relished any opportunity for a stroll around London. She found great pleasure in observing the city and its people – noticing the subtle details that others often miss. In this collection of...
Harcourt, 2002. — 148 p. — ISBN: 0156028034 (ISBN13: 9780156028035). The stories found in A Haunted House reflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as an enlightening introduction to the longer fiction of this pioneer novelist. Gathering works from the previously published Monday or Tuesday, as well as stories published in American and British magazines, this...
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters...
A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook. 2002. 74 pages.
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and...
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0199536570 (ISBN13: 9780199536573) In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day in 1939 at Pointz Hall, a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. The book weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of...
Macmillan, 1992. — 525 p. In this edition of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, the text is based on the earliest British edition of each novel (Mrs. Dalloway, 14 May 1925; To the Lighthouse, 5 May 1927; The Waves, 8 October 1931). All three novels were published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London. They were also published in American editions...
Delphi Classics, 2013 — 4974 p. Virginia Woolf was one of the foremost authors of the twentieth century, whose ground-breaking novels and essays had a profound impact on modernist literature. For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics is proud to present Woolf’s complete works in a single edition. The comprehensive eBook is complemented with numerous...
Mariner Books, 1976. — 204 p. — ISBN: 0156319527 (ISBN13: 9780156319522) This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning’s life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.
Вулф написала «Флаша» в 1933 году, после сложнейшей работы над биографией своего друга Роджера Фрая. История жизни коккер-спаниеля поэтессы Элизабет Браунинг — пародия на роман воспитания. Однако посредством этой литературной шутки Вулф знакомила читателя с жизнью Элизабет и Роберта Браунингов — поэтов английского романтизма.
Работая над «Флашем» Вулф использовала переписку четы...
London: The Hogarth Press, 1960. — 178 p.
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive young man named Jacob Flanders. The life story, character and friends of Jacob are presented in a series for separate scenes and moments from his childhood, through college at Cambridge, love affairs in London, and travels in Greece, to...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — ISBN: 9780199536580 Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive young man named Jacob Flanders. The life story, character and friends of Jacob are presented in a series for separate scenes and moments from his childhood, through college at Cambridge, love affairs in London, and travels in...
Выходные данные не указаны "Kew Gardens" is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf. It was first published privately in 1919, then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday, and subsequently in the posthumous collection A Haunted House (1944). Originally accompanying illustrations by Vanessa Bell, its visual organisation has been described as analogous to...
Mariner Books, 1985. — 230 p. — ISBN: 0156619180 (ISBN13: 9780156619189). Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. In "Reminiscences," the first of five pieces, she focuses on the death of her mother, "the greatest disaster that could happen," and its effect on her father, the demanding Victorian patriarch. Three of the papers were composed to...
Open Road Integrated Media, 2017. — ISBN: 9781504047357. One of the most distinguished critics and innovative authors of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published two novels before this collection appeared in 1921. However, it was these early stories that first earned her a reputation as a writer with "the liveliest imagination and most delicate style of her time."...
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1921.
A Haunted House.
A Society.
Monday or Tuesday.
An Unwritten Novel.
The String Quartet.
Blue & Green.
Kew Gardens.
The Mark on the Wall.
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister," the novel addresses Clarissa's preparations for a party she will host that...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 185 p. — ISBN: 0192839705 (ISBN13: 9780192839701) Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she...
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, Margaret, struggling to weave together the...
Harcourt, 1992. — 333 p. — ISBN: 015670160X (ISBN13: 9780156701600) In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later. The source of a critically acclaimed...
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's partner, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf's most popular and accessible novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 244 p. — ISBN: 0199556067 (ISBN13: 9780199556069). According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its last.' One of the best practitioners of the art she analysed so rewardingly, Woolf displayed her...
Mariner Books, 1974. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0156252341 (ISBN13: 9780156252348). A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). "Exquisitely written" (New Yorker); "The...
Daunt Books, 2012. — ISBN: 9781907970436. Take a stroll through London with Virginia Woolf as your guide in this beautifully illustrated book. Virginia Woolf relished any opportunity for a stroll around London. She found great pleasure in observing the city and its people - noticing the subtle details that others often miss. In this collection of stunning essays, Woolf gives us...
Mariner Books, 2003. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0156028166 (ISBN13: 9780156028165). Here, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters and De Quincey’s autobiography. She writes, too, about the life and art of women.
Penguin, 2006. — ISBN: 9780141919850 Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South American coast. “It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South America not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — ISBN: 0199642923 (ISBN13: 9780199642922) Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 256 p. Regarded by many as Woolf's greatest achievement, The Waves follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age. As the contours of their lives are revealed, a unique novel is unveiled. In this new edition David Bradshaw considers its spellbinding oddness and originality, helping the reader through this most poetic and haunting of...
Mariner Books, 2008. — 560 p. — ISBN: 0156034859 (ISBN13: 9780156034852). The Years is a sweeping tale of three generations of the Pargiter family, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, in the thick of life's cycles of birth, death, and the search for a pattern in all the chaos.
Mariner Books, 1963. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0156901773, ISBN13: 978-0156901772 In Three Guineas (1938) Woolf argues that women's historical exclusion offers them the chance to form a political and cultural identity which could challenge the drive towards fascism and war.
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever. In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting complexity of...
A collection of stories by British writer Virginia Woolf: The Mark on the Wall Kew Gardens Solid Objects An Unwritten Novel A Haunted House Monday or Tuesday The String Quartet Society Blue and Green In the Orchard Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street A Woman's College From Outside The New Dress Moments of Being The Lady in the Looking-Glass The Shooting Party The Duchess and The...
The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Novels: Between the Acts. Flush: A Biography. Jacob's Room. Mrs. Dalloway. Night and Day. Orlando: A Biography. To the Lighthouse. The Voyage...
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