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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.
1 163 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1915–2027.
Virginia Woolf explora en Al faro su propio pasado familiar y vuelca aquellos interrogantes que siempre la inquietaron: la raz n de la vida, el beneficio o la inutilidad de alcanzar una meta y la inevitable muerte.
Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge and into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy and then Greece.
A romantic comedy in which the central characters have a distinctly unromantic disposition, Night and Day was Virginia Woolf's second novel. Written during the First World War, the novel is set in the suffrage campaign of the pre-war years. Often understood as a deliberate exercise in classicism, it has been neglected by critics drawn to Woolf's later more overtly experimental fictions. This edition provides a substantial introduction, which traces the chronology of the novel's composition and publication, and which draws on previously neglected sources to trace its reception. Its extensive explanatory notes clarify the novel's relation to Woolf's reading and to the literary, cultural, and historical context of its time, with attention both to the time of its setting and its composition. Maps locate the key settings in London and England. The introduction and textual apparatus trace the complex history of the impressions and editions issued during Woolf's lifetime.
Virginia Woolfin viimeiseksi jäänyt romaani kuvaa yhden päivän tapahtumia Englannin maaseudulla. Pienen kylän asukkaat kokoontuvat toisen maailmansodan aattona seuraamaan harrastajateatterin näytelmää. Lähestyvän sodan odotus puskee tapahtumien läpi. Epävarma nykyhetki nivoutuu yhteen menneisyyden kanssa ja näyttämölle astelee historiallisia hahmoja vuosisatojen takaa. Brittiläisen luokkayhteiskunnan säikeet ja ihmissuhteet jännittyvät toisiaan vasten. Kaipaus, toiveet ja menetyksen pelko ovat läsnä kaikessa, mitä ihmiset sanovat - ja jättävät sanomatta.
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modeled after important figures in Woolf's life. St John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey and Helen Ambrose is to some extent inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. And Rachel's journey from a cloistered life in a London suburb to freedom, challenging intellectual discourse and discovery very likely reflects Woolf's own journey from a repressive household to the intellectual stimulation of the Bloomsbury Group.
Presentask med fyra noveller om kärlek
Virginia Woolf; Lev Tolstoj; Mary Shelley; Oscar Wilde
Novellix
2017
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Det här är en ask fylld med berättelser om kärlek: Om stark förälskelse och om brustna hjärtan. Om fåfänga och ondska, omtanke och besvikelse. Fyra noveller skrivna av några av våra mest älskade författare genom tiderna. Asken innehåller fyra böcker:Oscar Wilde - Näktergalen och rosen & Lady AlroyMary Shelley - KärleksprövningenLev Tolstoj - Efter balenVirginia Woolf - Arvet"En litterär pralinask." Svenska DagbladetNovellix ger ut stora läsupplevelser i litet format! En novell per bok, och alltid med originalomslag av svenska formgivare, illustratörer och konstnärer. Novellerna säljs både styckvis och förpackade i fina presentaskar.
"The Voyage Out was published in 1915. 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. (...) It is absolutely unafraid... Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path." EM Forster
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. St John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey and Helen Ambrose is to some extent inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. Rachel's journey from a cloistered life in a London suburb to freedom, challenging intellectual discourse and discovery very likely reflects Woolf's own journey from a repressive household to the intellectual stimulation of the Bloomsbury Group.
On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway – fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess – sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own isolation and loneliness. Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading. This elegant Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Virginia Woolf's modernist classic features an afterword by editor and publisher Anna South. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Macmillan Collector's Library
2017
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In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular ‘room of one’s own’, prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential. As relevant in its insight and indignation today as it was when first delivered in those hallowed lecture theatres, A Room of One’s Own remains both a beautiful work of literature and an incisive analysis of women and their place in the world. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf features an afterword by the British art historian Frances Spalding.
When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with the shifts of time and reality, this long-delayed excursion will also prove to be a journey of self-discovery and fulfilment for them. Rich in symbolism, daring in style, elegiac in tone and encapsulating Virginia Woolf's ideas on life, art and human relationships, To the Lighthouse is a landmark of twentieth-century literature and one of the high points of early Modernism.
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. 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.