An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a ten year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time
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Virginia Woolf
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 1 163 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1915–2027, suosituimpiin kuuluu Majakka. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
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Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1915–2027.
A Room of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf
Mariner Books Classics
1989
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister--a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a steady income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. With a Foreword by Mary Gordon
Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her earlier, more accessible works. A final chapter explores the problematic relation of the book to the genre of the novel.
Freshwater, a Comedy: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf; Woolf
Mariner Books Classics
1985
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Presents the 1935 performance version and the original 1923 version of a play that pokes fun at Virginia Woolf's great-aunt Julia Cameron, the Victorian photographer who with her husband founded an art colony on the Isle of Wight
This rich introduction to the art of Virginia Woolf contains the complete texts of five short stories and eight essays, together with substantial excerpts from the longer fiction and nonfiction. An ideal volume for those encountering Woolf for the first time as well as for those already devoted to her work. Edited and with a Preface by Mitchell A. Leaska.
The Virginia Woolf Reader: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf
Mariner Books Classics
1984
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Presents five short stories, essays, correspondence, and selections from four novels by the prominent British author
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 6 (1936-1941): The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf; Nigel Nicolson
Mariner Books Classics
1982
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The unabridged texts of virtually all of the English novelist's extant correspondence, recording her personality, activities, relationships, spells of madness, and growth as a writer from the age of six to shortly before her death
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume IV: 1929-1931
Virginia Woolf; Nigel Nicolson
Mariner Books Classics
1981
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These years were dominated by one woman and one book. The woman was Ethel Smyth; the book was The Waves. This volume's "unerringly human and confessional tone makes Woolf, at last, a real person" (San Francisco Chronicle). Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index; photographs.
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume III: 1923-1928
Virginia Woolf; Nigel Nicolson
Mariner Books Classics
1980
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Now in her forties and in love, Woolf writes two of her greatest novels during this period. "I can only write, letters that is, if I don't read them: once think and I destroy."-to Pernel Strachey, August 10, 1923. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index; photographs.
Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to bring the Postimpressionist movement from France to England and America. Index; illustrations.
Orlando, a Biography: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf
Mariner Books Classics
1973
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"Come, come I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth I's court. By the close, three centuries have passed, and he will have transformed into a thirty-six-year-old woman in the year 1928. Orlando's journey is also an internal one--he is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matter of the heart, and a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia Woolf's most unusual creation, Orlando is a fantastical biography as well as a funny, exuberant romp through history that examines the true nature of sexuality.
Three Guineas: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf; Mark Hussey
Mariner Books Classics
1963
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"Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes." Setting out to answer the question "How are we to prevent war?" Virginia Woolf argues that the inequalities between women and men must first be addressed. Framing her arguments in the form of a letter, Woolf wittily ponders to whom--among the many who have requested it--she will donate a guinea. As she works out her reasons for which causes she will support, Woolf articulates a vision of peace and political culture as radical now as it was when first published on the eve of the Second World War. A founding text of cultural theory, Three Guineas can also help us understand the twenty-first-century realities of endless war justified by "unreal loyalties." "Witty, scornful, deeply serious... If you are a woman, or anti-war, or both, read it."--The New Yorker
The Waves: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf; Mark Hussey
Mariner Books Classics
1950
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"I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me." Innovative and deeply poetic, The Waves is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. It begins with six children--three boys and three girls--playing in a garden by the sea, and follows their lives as they grow up, experience friendship and love, and grapple with the death of their beloved friend Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing their inner lives: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation.
"I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915) The Voyage Out (1915), Virginia Woolf's first novel, is about Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, who travel by sea from London to a South American resort. It describes Rachel's journey of self-discovery from her sheltered life in London to freedom and discovery, which reflects Woolf's own journey from a repressed childhood to intellectual inspiration.
"I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915)The Voyage Out (1915), Virginia Woolf's first novel, is about Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, who travel by sea from London to a South American resort. It describes Rachel's journey of self-discovery from her sheltered life in London to freedom and discovery, which reflects Woolf's own journey from a repressed childhood to intellectual inspiration.
Ten of Virginia Woolf’s most beloved essays in a new edition, introduced by Meghan O’Rourke Virginia Woolf is renowned as a novelist, but she was a prolific and gifted essayist and literary critic as well. She wrote on Jane Eyre and Jane Austen, on Daniel Defoe and Laurence Sterne, on war and feminism, aiming her work at the “common reader.” Between 1926 and 1939, Woolf wrote ten essays—on the pleasures of writing, reading, and walking—for publication in the Yale Review, including the now-classic pieces “Street Haunting: A London Adventure,” “Letter to a Young Poet,” and “How Should One Read a Book?” (“To read a book well,” Woolf wrote, “one should read it as if one were writing it.”) Here is Woolf at her critical best—incisive, lyric, and mercurial in turn. These ten essays have now been gathered in a striking edition introduced by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of the Yale Review.
Tässä romaanissa Virginia Woolfin kehittämä omaperäinen tajunnanvirtatekniikka on saanut puhtaimman muotonsa. Kuten Virginia Woolfin aiemmin suomennettu romaani Majakka on myös Aallot monivivahteinen, mielikuvitusrikas ja symbolinen teos, jossa elämän aaltojen kertoma tarina upottaa lukijan syvälle tämän hienoistuneen kirjailijan löytämään sisäiseen todellisuuteen.
Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel immerses readers in the tides of memory, emotion, and time through the lives of six characters: Bernard, Susan, Neville, Jinny, Louis, and Rhoda. Set against a coastal landscape, their voices rise and fall like ocean waves. Published in 1931, The Waves explores themes of love, ambition, grief, and desire, particularly following the death of their friend Percival. "My difficulty is that I am writing to a rhythm and not a plot," Woolf declared. The narrative is structured like a musical composition, with recurring rhythms creating continuity beneath the ebb and flow of the characters' voices. Meaning emerges from their overlapping experiences, reinforcing Woolf's central metaphor of life as rhythmic, cyclical, and communal.
