Virginia Woolf
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
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 his death in the war. Jacob's Room established Virginia Woolf's reputation as a highly poetic and symbolic writer who places emphasis not on plot or action but on the psychological realm of occupied by her characters.
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
As ondas, considerada uma das mais importantes obras de Virginia Woolf e do século XX, envolve o leitor nas inquietações e sensações íntimas de suas personagens principais. Os monólogos que conduzem a narrativa se desenrolam em um fluxo contínuo como o movimento das ondas e transformam este romance em um verdadeiro jogo experimental. Homossexualidade, adultério, amizade, amor e morte atravessam a fala dos protagonistas, que se exprimem e se retiram, cada um a seu tempo, embalando o leitor no ritmo das marés. Esta edição conta com a tradução da escritora Lya Luft, que verteu com maestria para a língua portuguesa toda a complexidade da genial escrita da autora.
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
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 readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.
Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
Virginia Woolf
'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'
At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's tragic death in 1941.
Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and glimpse into their extraordinary lives: from Vita's travels across the globe, to Virginia's parties with the Bloomsbury set; from their shared love of dogs and nature, to their grief at the beginning of the Second World War. Discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable.
WITH AN ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.
Deniz Feneri
Virginia Woolf
Yirminci yüzyılda roman geleneğini köklü biçimde değiştiren yazarlar arasında önemli bir yeri olan Virginia Woolf’un Deniz Feneri adlı kitabı, en çok okunan ve en sevilen romanları arasında yer alıyor. Bu romanıyla Woolf kendini zamanının öteki yazarlarından ayıran biçem ve yöntemi geliştirmiş, kendi roman tekniğine uygun en iyi yapıtını vermiştir. Bilindiği gibi James Joyce ve Virginia Woolf, bireyin günlük yaşamını ‘bilinç akışı’ ile birlikte ve olduğu gibi, tüm karmaşıklığıyla yapıtlarına yansıtmayı amaç edinen, biçime özen gösteren yazarların başında gelirler. Ramsay ailesinin İskoçya’daki yazlıklarında geçirdikleri birkaç günü anlatan Deniz Feneri, yazarın kendi hayatından izler taşıyor. Bu arada, yazarın, güçlü İngiliz kadın hareketinden etkilendiğini ve zamanın önde gelen feminist yazarlarından olduğunu da gözardı etmemek gerekir. İlk kez 1927 yılında yayımlanan bu romanın baş kadın kişisi Mrs. Ramsay, o yılların okur yazar, varlıklı ya da orta sınıf kadınlarının feminizm adına yaptıklarını, düşündüklerini yansıtmaktadır.
"Deniz Feneri, İngilizce’deki muazzam ağıtlardan biridir, zamanı aşan bir kitap."
Margaret Drabble
The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
Virginia Woolf
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 America whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis” (E. M. Forster).
How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf
In 1926 Virginia Woolf wrote an essay entitled, "How Should One Read a Book?" to deliver as a lecture at a private girls' school in Kent, England. In revised form it appears to have been first published in The Yale Review, October, 1926. Along with other essays, it first appeared in book form in Woolf's The Common Reader: Second Series in 1932.
On Being Ill
Virginia Woolf
In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being's experience, it has never been the subject of literature—like the more acceptable subjects of war and love. We cannot quote Shakespeare to describe a headache. We must, Woolf says, invent language to describe pain. And though illness enhances our perceptions, she observes that it reduces self-consciousness; it is "the great confessional." Woolf discusses the cultural taboos associated with illness and explores how illness changes the way we read. Poems clarify and astonish, Shakespeare exudes new brilliance, and so does melodramatic fiction!
On Being Ill was published as an individual volume by Hogarth Press in 1930. While other Woolf essays, such as A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, were first published by Hogarth as individual volumes and have since been widely available, On Being Ill has been overlooked. The Paris Press edition features original cover art by Woolf's sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. Hermione Lee's Introduction discusses this extraordinary work, and explores Woolf's revelations about poetry, language, and illness.
The Years
Virginia Woolf
The most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime, The Years is a savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, edited with an introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson in Penguin Modern Classics.
The Years is the story of three generations of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century. Growing up in a typically Victorian household, the Pargiter children must learn to find their footing in an alternative world, where the rules of etiquette have shifted from the drawing-room to the air-raid shelter. A work of fluid and dazzling lucidity, The Years eschews a simple line of development in favour of a varied and constantly changing style, emphasises the radical discontinuity of personal experiences and historical events. Virginia Woolf's penultimate novel celebrates the resilience of the individual self and, in her dazzlingly fluid and distinctive voice, she confidently paints a broad canvas across time, generation and class.
Flush
Virginia Woolf
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.
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.
As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.
Night and Day
Virginia Woolf
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 documents, events and memories of her own father's life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience.
Monday or Tuesday
Virginia Woolf
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." Influenced by Joyce, Proust, and the theories of William James, Bergson, and Freud, she strove to write a new fiction that emphasized the continuous flow of consciousness, time's passage as both a series of sequential moments and a longer flow of years and centuries, and the essential indefinability of character.Readers can discover these and other aspects of her influential style in the eight stories collected here, among them a delightful, feminist put-down of the male intellect in "A Society" and a brilliant and sensitive portrayal of nature in "Kew Gardens." Also included are "An Unwritten Novel," "The String Quartet," "A Haunted House," "Blue & Green," "The Mark on the Wall," and the title story.In recent years, Woolf's fiction, feminism, and high-minded sensibilities have earned her an ever-growing audience of readers. This splendid collection offers those readers not only the inestimable pleasures of the stories themselves, but an excellent entrée into the larger body of Woolf's work.
Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf
The author received three separate requests for a gift of one guinea-one for a women’s college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war and “protect culture, and intellectual liberty.” This book is a threefold answer to these requests-and a statement of feminine purpose.
A Writer's Diary
Virginia Woolf
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years.
Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those that are relevant to the raw material of her work, and, finally, comments on the books she was reading. The first entry included here is dated 1918 and the last, three weeks before her death in 1941. Between these points of time unfolds the private world—the anguish, the triumph, the creative vision—of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
“ A Writer’s Diary . . . is Virginia Woolf . . . The whole vibrates with the ups and downs of a passionate relationship . . . in the intensities, variations, alarms and excursions, panics and exaltations of her relationship to her art.”— New York Times Book Review
Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf.
The Mark on the Wall
Virginia Woolf
"The Mark on the Wall" is the first published story by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1917 as part of the first collection of short stories written by Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Woolf, called Two Stories. It was later published in New York in 1921 as part of another collection entitled Monday or Tuesday. The Mark on the Wall is written in the first person, as a "stream of consciousness" monologue. The narrator notices a mark on the wall, and muses on the workings of the mind. Themes of religion, self-reflection, nature, and uncertainty are explored. The narrator reminisces about the development of thought patterns, beginning in childhood.
Kew Gardens
Virginia Woolf
In 1927, at The Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf produced and published a limited edition of what was to become one of her best-loved stories. The book's jacket design and page illustrations were by her sister, artist Vanessa Bell.
More than sixty years later, The Hogarth Press at Chatto & Windus has published a lovely facsimile of that prized edition of 'Kew Gardens'.
The lush and haunting story circles around Kew Gardens one hot day in July, as various odd and interesting couples walk by and talk, exchanging words but letting thoughts and memories float languorously above the glossy leaves and exotic blooms, while at their feet, a determined snail makes its way slowly across a mountainous flower bed.
Elegantly produced, a precise replica of that 1927 special edition, with Vanessa Bell's jacket and decorative drawings, this is a rare treat for Bloomsbury devotees and all who love beautiful books.
The String Quartet
Virginia Woolf
An e-publication of a single short story.
The download link is below.
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
Virginia Woolf
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 riches of this book are overwhelming" (Christian Science Monitor). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.
The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life
Virginia Woolf
'The London Scene' is a collection of essays written by one of London's most acclaimed writers. Virginia Woolf was born and lived much of her life in the city, using it as the backdrop for many of her works.
The essays cover London Docks, Oxford Street Tide, Great Men's Houses, Abbeys and Cathedrals, "This is the House of Commons", and Portrait of a Londoner. The essays were first published in the 'Good Housekeeping' magazine, beginning in the spring of 1931 and then bi-monthly through to December 1932.
There is also a chapter on 'The History of The London Scene', which when first published in America was entitled 'The London Scene: Five Essays.' 'The Portrait of a Londoner' was the essay not included and, indeed, this edition has that essay included in the collection for the first time.
A Society
Virginia Woolf
The plot is about a group of girls who form a society. They vow that none of them will marry or have children until they can determine what men have been doing all the this time and whether it was worth it for women to spend their youth in bearing an raising them
The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as "Modern Fiction" and "The Modern Essay."
Modern Classics Selected Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of Solid Objects through the fragile impressionism of Kew Gardens to the abstract exploration of consciousness in The Mark on the Wall.
Selected Diaries
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit. The result is one of the greatest diaries in the English language.
A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary
Virginia Woolf
The Diary of Virginia Woolf has been acclaimed as a masterpiece. Anne Olivier Bell edited the five-volume original, and she has now abridged the Diary in this splendidly readable single volume edition.
A Room of One's Own (Cambridge Literature)
Virginia Woolf
Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14–18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. A Room of One's Own is edited by Jenifer Smith, English Advisor, Suffolk LEA.
The Common Reader: First Series
Virginia Woolf
Over two dozen essays from bestselling author Virginia Woolf. Published in 1925, The Common Reader collects many of her greatest essays.Expertly formatted with a linked table of contents. Look for more classic books from Green Light. Twitter - @GreenLightbooks and facebook.com/greenlightbooksCONTENTSThe Common ReaderThe Pastons and ChaucerOn not knowing GreekThe Elizabethan Lumber RoomNotes on an Elizabethan PlayMontaigneThe Duchess of NewcastleRambling round EvelynDefoeAddisonLives of the Obscure-- I. Taylors and Edgeworths II. Laetitia PilkingtonJane AustenModern Fiction"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights"George EliotThe Russian Point of ViewOutlines-- I. Miss Mitford II. Dr. Bentley III. Lady Dorothy Nevill IV. Archbishop ThomsonThe Patron and the CrocusThe Modern EssayJoseph ConradHow it strikes a Contemporary
To The Lighthouse: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf
The subject of this extraordinary novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides.
“Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.” -Eudora Welty, from her Introduction.
Mrs. Dalloway: Illustrierte Schmuckausgabe
Virginia Woolf
Ein Tag wie ein ganzes Leben London im Juni 1923: Ein Mittwoch im Leben der vornehmen Clarissa Dalloway, die für diesen Abend eine große Gesellschaft vorbereitet. Als sie unerwartet Besuch von ihrer Jugendliebe bekommt, verliert sie sich in Erinnerungen und zweifelt an vergangenen Entscheidungen. Meisterhaft zieht Virginia Woolf die Leser immer tiefer in die Gedanken ihrer Figuren hinein und stellt damit zugleich deren Leben in Frage.
Um Teto Todo Seu
Virginia Woolf
Baseado em palestras proferidas por Virginia Woolf nas faculdades de Newham e Girton em 1928, o ensaio Um teto todo seu é uma reflexão acerca das condições sociais da mulher e a sua influência na produção literária feminina. A escritora pontua em que medida a posição que a mulher ocupa na sociedade acarreta dificuldades para a expressão livre de seu pensamento, para que essa expressão seja transformada em uma escrita sem sujeição e, finalmente, para que essa escrita seja recebida com consideração, em vez da indiferença comumente reservada à escrita feminina na época. Esta edição traz, além do ensaio, uma seleção de trechos dos diários de Virginia, uma cronologia da vida e da obra da autora e um posfácio escrito pela crítica literária e colaboradora da Folha de S. Paulo Noemi Jaffe.
A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf
In these texts, Virginia Woolf considers the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women's creativity will not be hampered by poverty, or by oppression. In Three Guineas (1938), however, 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.
Um Quarto Só Seu
Virginia Woolf
Em 1928, Virginia Woolf foi convidada pela Universidade de Cambridge a dar, nos colégios femininos da instituição, uma palestra sobre mulheres e ficção. Com a frontalidade que o tema exige, Woolf resolve, sem subterfúgios, a equação: para escrever ficção, «uma mulher tem de ter dinheiro e um quarto só seu». Dito de outro modo, tem de ser livre.
Versando sobre as condições materiais e sociais necessárias para que uma mulher possa, se assim o desejar, escrever e criar, e explorando os efeitos da pobreza e do constrangimento sexual na criatividade feminina, Virginia Woolf ofereceu ao seu auditório e a todas as gerações que se seguiram uma reflexão provocadora e estimulante sobre a condição da mulher e a alienação social a que foi, desde a Antiguidade, sujeita num mundo dominado por homens.
Considerado um dos textos mais importantes do século XX, Um Quarto Só Seu marca um momento fundador do feminismo moderno, que devolve à esfera política uma luta antiga e justa: a da igualdade.
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. One, 1888-1912
Virginia Woolf
A collection of Virginia Woolf's correspondence from age six to the eve of her marriage twenty-four years later. "Engagingly fresh and spontaneous as young Virginia's letters are...the excitement in this collection arises from [her] growing awareness of herself as a writer" (Chicago Sun-Times). Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index; photographs.
LAS OLAS (Spanish Edition)
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (Stephen de soltera; Londres, 25 de enero de 1882 – Lewes, Sussex, 28 de marzo de 1941) fue una novelista, ensayista, escritora de cartas, editora, feminista y escritora de cuentos británica, considerada como una de las más destacadas figuras del modernismo literario del siglo XX.
Al faro
Virginia Woolf
Al faro es la novela de Virginia Woolf que posee más elementos autobiográficos. Sus dos personajes principales, los señores Ramsay, son un trasunto de los padres de la autora. La novela reflexiona sobre las relaciones entre el arte y la vida, el paso del tiempo y la muerte, y explora en profundidad el interior de los personajes y las complejas relaciones que mantienen entre sí.
The Lady in the Looking Glass
Virginia Woolf
People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime'. 'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination'. Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and creating a new language of sensation and thought. Sometimes impressionistic, sometimes experimental, sometimes brutally cruel, sometimes surprisingly warm and funny, these five stories describe love lost, friendships formed and lives questioned. This book includes "The Lady in the Looking Glass", "A Society", "The Mark on the Wall", "Solid Objects" and "Lappin and Lapinova".
Street Haunting
Virginia Woolf
Six short stories and / or essays, extracted from The Crowded Dance of Modern Life (1993) and Selected Short Stories (1993).
Una stanza tutta per sé
Virginia Woolf
Una stanza tutta per sé è un trattato ironico, immaginifico, personalissimo e vario, che riesce a unire l’analisi sociale e la satira. Il leitmotiv della stanza, grembo e prigione dell’anima femminile, si allarga fino a comprendere tutti i luoghi della dimora umana: la natura, la cultura, la storia e infine la “realtà” stessa nella sua inquietante ma esaltante molteplicità. L’autrice demolisce la società patriarcale, bussa con forza alle porte del mondo della cultura, fino a quel momento di esclusivo appannaggio maschile, pretende di farvi irruzione, chiede che non ci siano più limiti e divieti per il pensiero delle donne.
Um Quarto Só Meu
Virginia Woolf
Neste ensaio baseado em palestras dadas a mulheres no final dos anos 1920, na Universidade de Cambridge, no Reino Unido, Virginia Woolf oferece ao auditório, primeiro, e ao mundo, depois, um encadeamento de pensamentos provocatórios e excitantes sobre a condição da mulher na sociedade, desde sempre e até agora.
Dos obstáculos na aprendizagem ao exercício da profissão e à exploração da criatividade literária, e não só, Woolf aborda o transversal tema dos constrangimentos sexuais, que nesta obra encontra contornos de uma evidente atualidade.
«Ter dinheiro e um quarto.» Ser livre, portanto, de forma literal e figurada.
Gita al faro
Virginia Woolf
"Gita al Faro" viene dal ricordo e dal rimpianto di un'infanzia felice, protetta da madre e padre, allietata da fratelli e sorelle, nella casa delle vacanze al mare. Virginia Woolf scrive questa elegia mentre sta leggendo Proust, forse in gara con lui. Progetta il libro in tre parti: alla finestra del salotto, sono passati sette anni, la gita al Faro che finalmente è compiuta dal padre, ormai vecchio, da due figli ormai adolescenti. La madre è morta, e anche i due figli più grandi. Della terribile guerra che intanto è accaduta non parla: è il suo modo di condannarla. Inserisce nel quadro un alter-ego di se stessa, Lily Briscoe, una pittrice che vorrebbe fissare sulla tela la bellezza misteriosa e appassionante della madre, la signora Ramsay, e vi riuscirà solo alla fine, nello stesso momento in cui Virginia Woolf finisce la sua scrittura.
La signora Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Un mercoledì di metà giugno del 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, moglie di un deputato conservatore alla Camera dei Lords, esce per comprare dei fiori per la festa, che la sera riunirà nella sua casa una variopinta galleria di personaggi. Tra gli altri: Peter Walsh, l'amante respinto, appena tornato dall'India, e l'amica tanto amata, più di ogni uomo, Sally Seton. Per le strade di Londra passeggia anche Septimus Warren Smith, il deuteragonista del romanzo. Nulla sembra legare i due, se non la città di Londra. Clarissa ha cinquant'anni, è ricca. Septimus ne ha appena trenta, è povero e traumatizzato dall'esperienza feroce e violenta della guerra, in cui ha perduto non solo l'amico Evans, ma ogni pace. Eppure i due, senza mai incontrarsi, semplicemente sfiorando gli stessi luoghi, comunicano. Con sapienza straordinaria Virginia Woolf, giunta con questo al suo quarto romanzo, tesse il filo sottile di corrispondenze, echi, emozioni che creano un'opera di grande intensità. Dove un uomo e una donna sconosciuti l'uno all'altra sono accomunati dallo stesso amore e terrore della vita, che li porterà, nell'accettazione (femminile) o nel rifiuto (maschile), ad affermarne comunque l'inestimabile valore.
El lector común
Virginia Woolf
La presente selección supone un recorrido cabal por las lecturas que formaron a la gran escritora británica. Defoe, Jane Austen, las Brontë, George Eliot, Conrad, Sterne o Thomas Hardy son algunos de los autores que desfilan ante la mirada de Woolf, siempre atenta al detalle revelador, dueña de una incomparable habilidad para hablar al común de los mortales de cuestiones a menudo complejas, pero siempre apasionantes. Estos ensayos constituyen el complemento ideal a la lectura de la obra narrativa de Virginia Woolf.
Memorias de un gremio de mujeres trabajadoras
Virginia Woolf
La señora Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Figura destacada del llamado «Grupo de Bloomsbury», Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) fue autora de una serie de relatos que la sitúan en la vanguardia del movimiento renovador de las técnicas narrativas que buscó en la profundización del análisis de la conciencia el reflejo de una realidad más auténtica y esencial. Fue en la amalgama de sentimientos, pensamientos y emociones que es la subjetividad donde Woolf encontró el material apropiado para una narrativa que contribuyó a forjar la sensibilidad contemporánea. Publicada en 1925, La señora Dalloway relata un día en la vida de una mujer de la clase alta londinense desde el punto de vista de una conciencia que experimenta con plena intensidad cada instante vivido, en el que se condensan el pasado, el entorno y el presente.
Jurnalul unei scriitoare
Virginia Woolf
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.
Un cuarto propio
Virginia Woolf
«No hay marca en la pared para medir la precisa estatura de las mujeres. No hay medidas que determinen las condiciones de una buena madre o el cariño de una hija, la fidelidad de una hermana o la capacidad de un ama de llaves», comenta Virginia Woolf en este ensayo, pero lo que también nos dice es que para escribir una novela una mujer tiene que tener un cuarto propio y comida caliente; en resumen, tener una vida propia e independiente.
Lejos de ser un alegato furibundo contra los hombres, Un cuarto propio es un elegante ensayo que ya en 1929 ponía sobre la mesa unos temas que aún hoy son objeto de debate, como la dependencia económica de la mujer con respecto al hombre, el cuidado de una familia y la figura de la mujer como musa inspiradora del artista pero con poca presencia en la práctica de la creatividad.
Mrs Dalloway (Wordsworth Collector's Editions)
Virginia Woolf
A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of a day in one woman's life.
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and is on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present, and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf
WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES BY HERMIONE LEE
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism.
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
Virginia Woolf
The essay was written in 1923, and in 1924 it was read to the Heretics, Cambridge. The essay is a polemical piece that attempts to go beyond Arnold Bennett’s thesis that character is the essence of novel writing, and his too easy conclusion as to why the young writers have failed to create credible characters. Woolf chooses the year 1910 as the year in which a discernible shift in human relations takes place. This point is important to her because to understand what “real” character is, one has to understand the large context—the British society. In this light, she chooses Mrs. Brown as a metaphor for human nature. Her analysis highlights the shortcomings of previous generations of writers; in particular the Edwardians and the Georgians, concluding that they also failed to create lasting characters. In this regard, history seems to be on Virginia Woolf’s side: while everyone remembers Mrs. Dalloway, no one remembers a single character created by either the Edwardians or the Georgians. What readers remember instead are the physical settings they created with old tools. To facilitate the flow of ideas, this version of the essay includes section headings and bold typography. The essay is presented, otherwise, as it was first published.
Um Quarto que Seja Seu
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own is considered Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'.
Orlando: A Biography
Virginia Woolf
'Orlando' is a historical fantasy in which the eponymous hero remains alive for over three centuries, but ages physically just 36 years. Over this huge span of time, Orlando has many strange adventures, chief among them being his sex-change from a man to a woman. Woolf uses this bizarre and intriguing notion to examine many aspects of human existence: the difference between fact and imagination; the utility of poetry and art; how humans conform to whatever civilization of group they find themselves in; and (a central theme of the book) the gender roles which society imposes so unjustly upon men and women, when - in Woolf's view - the two sexes have in reality very similar dreams and aspirations.
Box Grandes Obras Virginia Woolf (Portuguese Edition)
Virginia Woolf
Este box reúne três clássicos de uma das maiores escritoras inglesas do século Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway é considerado a obra-prima de Virginia. Publicado originalmente em 1925, o romance descreve um dia na vida de Clarissa Dalloway, uma dama de nobre linhagem casada com um parlamentar conservador e mãe de uma adolescente. O mundo de Mrs. Dalloway — suas memórias, sonhos, arrependimentos e medos, na Londres do pós-Primeira Guerra — é evocado no famoso fluxo de consciência de Woolf, em uma linguagem lírica e pungente que fez deste título um dos mais importantes do século XX. Esta edição conta com a tradução do grande poeta Mario Quintana e a delicada apresentação da jornalista Marília Gabriela. Original e transgressora, Orlando é uma das histórias mais populares de Virginia Woolf. Com o dom de permanecer sempre jovem, a personagem empreende uma viagem por mais de três séculos, assumindo diversos papéis na sociedade de um jovem membro da aristocracia elisabetana a uma mulher moderna dos anos 1920. A natureza do homem e da mulher, o amor, a vida em sociedade, a literatura, tudo é desnudado pela escritora inglesa com um humor fantástico. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1928, o livro foi um marco na literatura, e particularmente na escrita das mulheres e nos estudos de gênero.
Esta edição conta com a tradução e a apresentação de Laura Alves. As ondas é um dos romances mais experimentais de Virginia Woolf e considerado uma das obras capitais da literatura do século XX, tanto pela originalidade quanto pela beleza fascinante de sua prosa poética. O livro é composto por uma sucessão de monólogos interiores de seis personagens, intercalados com breves descrições da natureza. Cada personagem exprime sua voz e se retira, em um movimento rítmico que evoca o fluxo e o refluxo das marés. Esta edição conta com a tradução da escritora Lya Luft, que transpôs com sucesso para a língua portuguesa toda a complexidade da narrativa de Virginia Woolf.
Una habitación propia
Virginia Woolf
Obra publicada en 1929, Una habitación propia trata, básicamente, de la relación entre la condición femenina y la literatura, desde el punto de vista de una de las mejores y más singulares escritoras del siglo XX, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), que volcó en cada una de sus páginas su inconfundible sensibilidad, el acervo de sus vivencias y su particular subjetividad. "Una mujer necesita dinero y una habitación propia para dedicarse a la literatura", proclama la autora al principio de estas páginas. Y toda aquella persona -sea hombre o mujer- interesada por los siempre sutiles vínculos entre vida y creación artística no se arrepentirá de adentrarse en ellas.
To the light house: To the Lighthouse (1927),
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction".
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
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 and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.
A Haunted House And Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf
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 book compiles some of the best shorter fiction of one of the most important writers of our time.
Mrs. Dalloway: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf
The authorized, original edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece and one of the most “moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century” (Michael Cunningham), with a foreword by Maureen Howard. In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house for friends and neighbors, she is flooded with remembrances of the past—the passionate loves of her carefree youth, her practical choice of husband, and the approach and retreat of war. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.From the introspective Clarissa, to the lover who never fully recovered from her rejection, to a war-ravaged stranger in the park, the characters and scope of Mrs. Dalloway reshape our sense of ordinary life and reshaped English literature as we know it. “Perhaps her masterpiece…Exquisite and superbly constructed…Required like most writers to choose between the surface and the depths as the basis of her operations, she chooses the surface and then burrows in as far as she can.” –E. M. Forster
Liberty
Virginia Woolf
Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing and under what conditions they might break free, to the solace derived from haunting London's streets, these essays, and stories present Woolf at her most impassioned, rendering the pursuit of liberty one of life's most poetic adventures. Selected from the books A Room of One's Own, The Waves, and Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf.
Killing the Angel in the House
Virginia Woolf
Classics of feminist consciousness.
Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Virginia Woolf
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 be read to the Memoir Club, a postwar regrouping of Bloomsbury, which exacted absolute candor of its members.
"A Sketch of the Past" is the longest and most significant of the pieces, giving an account of Virginia Woolf's early years in the family household at 22 Hyde Park Gate. A recently discovered manuscript belonging to this memoir has provided material that further illuminates her relationship to her father, Leslie Stephen, who played a crucial role in her development as an individual and as a writer.
Los artistas y la política
Virginia Woolf
Catorce textos que pueden leerse como un recorrido panorámico por el costado más agudo de esta emblemática escritora: su posición política. Reflexiona sobre las grandes temas de la literatura, situándose en los intersticios, los márgenes, la observación certera o la asociación inesperada.
La relación entre los escritores y la contingencia; la exclusión de la figura femenina en el ámbito laboral e intelectual; la precarización de los medios culturales anclados a la escena literaria o reflexiones sobre el arte de la biografía y el oficio de las palabras, deambulan en este libro que confirma la ineludible vigencia que la escritura de Woolf posee en la actualidad.
Орландо
Virginia Woolf
«Орландо» — найвідоміший завдяки блискучій екранізації і водночас найсуперечливіший роман В.Вулф, адже незвичний навіть для самої авторки. Про що цей твір? Чи це романтизована біографія молодого дворянина, що три століття поспіль не старішає, а згодом ще й перетворюється на жінку? Чи дотепна пародія? Чи майстерна гра авторки з простором і часом? А може, це жіноча версія «Портрета Доріана Грея»? Чи своєрідне освідчення в коханні завдовжки з роман?
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Une chambre à soi
Virginia Woolf
"Je sais, vous m'avez demandé de parler des femmes et du roman. Quel rapport, allez-vous me dire, existe-t-il entre ce sujet et une "chambre à soi" ?, interroge Virginia Woolf en ouverture d'une conférence sur le féminisme qu'elle dispensa aux étudiantes de l'université de Cambridge. Avec une irritation voilée d'ironie, Virginia Woolf rappelle dans ce délicieux pamphlet comment, jusqu'à une époque toute récente, les femmes ont été savamment placées sous la dépendance spirituelle et économique des hommes et, par voie de conséquence, réduites au silence. Il manquait à celles qui étaient douées pour affirmer leur génie de quoi vivre, du temps et une chambre à soi."
Lunes o martes
Virginia Woolf
Lunes o Martes es el único libro de cuentos que Virginia Woolf publicó en vida y es un buen puerto de entrada a su obra. En estos cuentos y bosquejos existe una narrativa que experimenta con formas clásicas, a la vez que es un recordatorio de que un cuento no solo «cuenta una historia», sino que es un extracto de la realidad. Y que esa realidad oscila entre un mundo interior y el mundo exterior, y, por lo tanto, no está hecha solo de palabras, de tramas, y de personajes principales y secundarios; sino también de una serie de momentos tan reales como oníricos, e incluso temporalmente más extensos de lo que un lunes o martes cualquiera pueden ofrecernos.
La stanza di Jacob
Virginia Woolf
Romanzo sperimentale, biografia, romanzo di formazione, elegia, meditazione sul flusso incessante della vita, soprattutto ricerca di un disegno che ricomponga l'armonia sottesa all'apparente caos del reale, La stanza di Jacob è il primo, grande capolavoro di Virginia Woolf, che con questo libro entra a buon diritto tra i grandi scrittori novecenteschi, creando una nuova forma narrativa che si costruisce su tracce, allusioni, simboli, ma resta tuttavia concreta, ancorata all'esperienza, al tempo stesso, secondo una metafora della stessa autrice, «granito e arcobaleno». Ispirato alla figura dell'amato fratello prematuramente scomparso, La stanza di Jacob disegna, attraverso sensazioni, emozioni, memorie, illuminazioni epifaniche, non soltanto un personaggio indimenticabile, ma un intero mondo, e regala, al lettore, le scoperte e l'incanto di una nuova visione.
Momenti di essere: Scritti autobiografici
Virginia Woolf
Pubblicati postumi, questi scritti autobiografici di Virginia Woolf, composti in un arco di quasi quarant'anni, sono illuminanti per la comprensione della sua tematica e della sua costante ricerca di definire gli infiniti piani sovrapposti della realtà. Né narrativa né biografia, queste pagine sono il tentativo di tracciare le linee di uno sviluppo interiore: si delineano i rapporti intensi e quasi ossessivi con la madre amata e perduta, il sentimento ambivalente verso la dominante figura paterna, l'ambiguo comportamento del fratellastro George, l'affetto sicuro venato di gelosia per la sorella Vanessa, il delicato passaggio dall'ipocrisia vittoriana alla programmatica sincerità dei giovani intellettuali di Bloomsbury. Sensazioni, ricordi, personaggi che faranno da sfondo a tutte le opere della Woolf.
Queste memorie, che per i loro innegabili meriti intrinseci sono in grado di brillare di luce propria, non potranno che rendere più profonda e più ricca l'esperienza della lettura dei romanzi e dei racconti di Virginia Woolf, in quanto forniscono un solido retroterra nel contesto della sua vita.
O cameră doar a ei
Virginia Woolf
Eseul „O cameră doar a ei” reprezintă una dintre cele mai valoroase contribuții la literatura feministă din secoluln XX. A fost publicat inițial în 1929 și constituie o argumentare spumoasă, urbană și convingătoare împotriva subminării intelectuale a femeii, cu precădere a scriitoarelor.
Cuentos de Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882 –1941) participó del insigne grupo de Bloomsbury y fundó con su marido una editorial en la que publicó, entre otros escritores importantes, a sus amigos T.S. Elliot y Katherine Mansfield. Además del celebérrimo ensayo Una habitación propia o de la novela La señora Dalloway , Woolf es también la autora de una valiosa obra de cuentos de la que recogemos aquí una muestra representativa. La obra de la autora está unánimemente considerada como una de las cotas más altas de la prosa inglesa y a menudo sus cuentos constituían experimentos o probaturas y ejercicios que desarrolló en sus novelas y que más tarde la encumbrarían, junto con Joyce, Proust y Faulkner, al exclusivo panteón de los mejores escritores del siglo XX.
Cuentos completos (Spanish Edition)
Virginia Woolf
En Cuentos completos se reúnen relatos y cuentos escritos por Virginia Woolf. Autora también de novelas y con una vasta producción ensayística, la literatura de Virginia Woolf puede observarse pulida y prolija a través de sus cuentos y relatos breves, como en La "Así comenzó todo. Éramos un grupo de seis o siete reunidas después del té. Algunas miraban hacia la sombrerera de enfrente, donde las plumas rojas y las pantuflas doradas seguían iluminadas en la vidriera; otras dejaban pasar el tiempo construyendo pequeñas torres de azúcar en el borde de la bandeja del té. Pasado un momento, según lo recuerdo, nos ubicamos alrededor del fuego y comenzamos, como de costumbre, a elogiar a los hombres. Qué fuertes, qué nobles, qué inteligentes, qué valientes, qué bellos eran; y cómo envidiábamos a aquellas que, por las buenas o por las malas, lograban unirse a uno de por vida. Hasta que Poll, que había permanecido en silencio hasta el momento, rompió a llorar. Poll, debo admitirlo, siempre ha sido algo extraña. Para empezar, su padre era un hombre extraño. Le dejó una fortuna en su testamento, pero con la condición de que leyera todos los libros de la biblioteca de Londres. Intentábamos consolarla lo mejor que podíamos, pero en el fondo sabíamos que era inútil."
Die Fahrt zum Leuchtturm
Virginia Woolf
Im Jahr 2015 wählten 82 internationale Literaturkritiker Virginia Woolfs ›To the Lighthouse‹ zum zweit-bedeutendsten britischen Roman. aller Zeiten. Nicht von ungefähr: Woolfs brillanter Erzählstil ermöglicht es, eine Geschichte, die vor allem von reflektierender Innenschau geprägt ist, in einer Spannung zu erzählen, dass man das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen kann. Im Zentrum steht die Familie Ramsay und deren Besuche im Sommerhaus auf der schottischen Isle of Skye, vor und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Symbolisch wie real ragt im Hintergrund der malerische Leuchtturm von Godrevy Point auf, den man den Kindern bald zu besuchen verspricht. Doch subkutane, kaum wahrnehmbare häusliche Konflikte, von Woolf wie mit einem Seziermesser herausgeschält, sabotieren die Fahrt. Erst viele Jahre später findet sie statt. Doch alles hat sich bis dahin verändert. – Der Roman wurde schon kurz nach seinem Erscheinen als grandioses Stück Literatur gefeiert und verkaufte sich besser als alle Romane von Virginia Woolf zuvor.
Über die Autorin: Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) war eine der bedeutendsten europäischen Schriftstellerinnen und gab der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts völlig neue Impulse. Zeitlebens unter Depressionen leidend, beging sie im Alter von 59 Jahren Selbstmord.
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read
Virginia Woolf
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE
Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?
In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars.
The weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad: all are here, in anonymously published pieces, in which may be glimpsed the thinking behind Woolf’s works of fiction and the enquiring, feminist spirit of A Room of One’s Own.
Here is Woolf the critical essayist, offering, at one moment, a playful hypothesis and, at another, a judgement laid down with the authority of a twentieth-century Dr Johnson. Here is Woolf working out precisely what’s great about Hardy, and how Elizabeth Barrett Browning made books a “substitute for living” because she was “forbidden to scamper on the grass”. Above all, here is Virginia Woolf the reader, whose enthusiasm for great literature remains palpable and inspirational today.
Selected Short Stories
Virginia Woolf
'Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! ... Yes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste and repair; all so casual, all so haphazard' Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of 'Solid Objects' through the fragile impressionism of 'Kew Gardens' to the abstract exploration of consciousness in 'The Mark on the Wall'. Edited with an introduction and notes by Sandra Kemp
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919
Virginia Woolf
“Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf.... [This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her art without the distractions of a commentary” (New York Times). Edited and with a Preface by Anne Olivier Bell; Introduction by Quentin Bell; Index.
Tra un atto e l'altro
Virginia Woolf
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.
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