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(0)Virginia Woolf
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2005
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English
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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.
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Pub. Date
2017
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Français
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In the peaceful months before the Great War, Mrs Ramsay's numerous guests and eight children are all enjoying the long summer days on the Isle of Skye. Their feelings and thoughts form an ever-changing picture, in keeping with the unpredictable weather. Will they be able to go to the Lighthouse tomorrow ? Isn't a storm brewing ?
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3) Orlando
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Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
Español
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La novela más popular y escandalosa de Virginia Woolf.
«Virginia Woolf es dios, nadie ha escrito mejor.»
Milena Busquets
80 ANIVERSARIO DE VIRGINIA WOOLF
Desde que se publicó en 1928, Orlando ha sido una de las novelas más populares de Virginia Woolf por su originalidad y espíritu transgresor. Cuenta las peripecias de un joven aristócrata inglés, apuesto, rico, seductor y amante de la
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This annotated edition of the landmark inquiry into the women's role in society by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, Viriginia Woolf's classic A Room of One's Own features an introduction by English and Women's Studies professor Susan Gubar, perfect for critical analysis in classrooms and beyond.
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare...
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"Virginia Woolf's exuberant 'biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the 'life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted...
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....
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Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war and a statement of feminine purpose.
Annotated and introduced by feminist literary scholar Jane Marcus, this is an ideal edition for the college classroom and beyond.
In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research...
9) The waves
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English
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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...
10) Jacob's room
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English
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"Prized for their lyrical qualities, the novels of Virginia Woolf favor the psychological realms inhabited by her characters, where thoughts are so revealed that actions lose much of their importance. Most are also concerned with the structure of narrative, including the present novel, in which Woolf conveys the impression of time present and of time passing in individual experience as well as in the characters' awareness of historic time. Considered...
11) Night and day
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Pub. Date
1966.
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English
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An insightful novel about two women in Edwardian England and the men who pursue them by the author of Mrs. Dalloway.
Exploring themes of love, marriage, and freedom, Night and Day follows four characters: a privileged woman who prefers her solitude; a vicar’s daughter who is fighting for women’s suffrage; a lawyer caught in an obsessive romantic fixation; and a struggling writer who seeks a bride more for
...12) The voyage out
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English
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A strange, tragic, inspired novel ... as poignant as anything in modern fiction." -- E. M. Forster This acclaimed novel marked the debut of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and important writers. In Virginia Woolf's captivating exploration of a young woman's growing self-awareness, the events of a shipboard journey to South America parallel the naive heroine's inner quest. Her experiences, from a first kiss to a surprising flowering of...
13) Between the acts
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English
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In Virginia Woolf's lyrical, inventive last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England on the eve of World War II.
"Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life." 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...
15) The years
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The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the genteel Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in scope, focusing instead on the small private details of the characters' lives. Except for the first, each section takes place on a single day of its titular year, and each year is defined by a particular...
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Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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In this early collection of eight short stories by Virginia Woolf conventional notions of plot and character are abandoned for a stream of consciousness, almost dream-like and experimental form of prose. Readers while find the relative brevity of this volume, and the stories within it, helpful in overcoming any unfamiliarity with this style of writing. Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories was first published in 1921 and includes the following stories:...
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