Virginia Woolf

Monday or Tuesday was written in October 1920 and first appeared in Monday or Tuesday (1921) - a collection of experimental short prose pieces Virginia Woolf had written between 1917 and 1921. It was published by the Hogarth Press and also included A Society, A Haunted House, An Unwritten Novel, The String Quartet, Blue and Green, and Solid Objects.

För Virginia Woolf finns inga skarpa gränser mellan dagbok, brev, essä och roman. Det blir som mest tydligt i de blixtrande infallsrika och oklassificerbara texter som här samlas i en fjärde volym av Virginia Woolfs essäer. Woolf skriver sig fram genom sin tid, sina miljöer och sina minnen, hela tiden med skarpast tänkbara blick för det djupt personliga och tidlöst mänskliga. Personligt är den fjärde av fem planerade urvalsvolymer i ellerströms utgivning av hennes essäer, av vilka London, Kvinnor och Böcker redan utkommit. Dessutom kom Woolfs mest berömda essä Ett eget rum ut 2012 i Elisabeth Manséns nyöversättning.

Årene er historien om Pargiterfamilien, om deres indbyrdes relationer, de tætte og fortrolige, de kølige og fremmedgørende, og om deres bekymringer og deres triumfer. Pagiter’ne er en vidtforgrenet, londonsk middelklassefamilie. Børnene vokser op i en typisk victoriansk familie og må lære at finde deres egen vej i en ny verden, hvor etikettereglerne skifter fra opholdsstuerne til beskyttelsesrummene. Man følger hvert enkelt familiemedlem gennem hjertesorger og tab, radikale livsændringer og kvælende ensformighed, ægteskab og fortrydelse. Fortællingen udspiller sig i løbet af de første årtier af det 20. århundrede til den travle summen fra de Londons gader. I sin karakteristiske, sikre, blændende, flydende stil, maler Woolf med brede strøg et billede af tiden, generationerne og klasse, og hun hylder individets formåen og livets poesi. Romanen er skrevet i 1937 og blev, mens hun levede, Virginia Woolfs mest populære roman. Den er en stærk anklage mod victoriatidens værdisæt. Udkom oprindeligt på dansk på Hagerups forlag i 1941. Nyoversat af Mette Egerod. Pressen skriver: »Romanen har alt, hvad man kan begære af scenisk fylde: selskaber med og uden brus, sarte og brutale landskabsmalerier, foruden altså den enestående kikkertundersøgelse af sindets vanvittige plasticitet, det, som er og bliver sjælekirurgen Woolfs ubestridte speciale. […] romanen kan læses som Virginia Woolfs fortvivlende smukke dødsrute og kærligt vemodige London-guide i ét. […] Endelig virker Årene også påfaldende frisk og samtidig i Mette Egerods danske nyoversættelse.« ****** – Lise Garsdal, Politiken »Fantastisk smukt oversat Virginia Woolf-roman. Romanen folder sig ud på første side i et smukt og malende sprog, med poetiske vendinger og sirlige formuleringer. Bogen er en fryd at læse« – Sanne Mendel, Lektør

Discover the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime - a powerful portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century. The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s.

'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate MosseThis volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century.

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, 36-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed.

A poetic novel that begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival.

Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. 'My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again' Greta GerwigMr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bringing with it war and death, and the summer home stands empty until one day, many years later, the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse. One of the great literary achievements of the 20th century, To the Lighthouse, is at once an intensely autobiographical and universally moving masterpiece about changing relationships and attitudes amongst the early 20th-century middle class.'To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble 'Thrillingly introspective' The Independent

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

Four classic short stories, offering a perfect introduction to some of Britain's most famous writers. This box includes: Katherine Mansfield - Bliss Charles Dickens - Horatio SparkinsD. H. Lawrence - Sun Virginia Woolf - Lappin and Lapinova The concept of Novellix is simple; small books, big stories, all contained within beautiful, accessible packages; ideal for reading on the go.

“And before they went to bed that night it was all settled. He was King Lappin; she was Queen Lapinova. They were the opposite of each other; he was bold and determined; she wary and undependable. He ruled over the busy world of rabbits; her world was a desolate, mysterious place, which she ranged mostly by moonlight. All the same, their territories touched; they were King and Queen.” Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is considered one of the 20th century’s foremost British authors and was a leading figure in the modernist movement. Her influence on English literature is still apparent seventy-five years after her death. Woolf’s writing spans novels, short stories and essays and she is most renowned for works such as Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), not to mention her revolutionary feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929). Lappin and Lapinova was originally published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1938. It was subsequently included in the collection A Haunted House and Other Stories which was published in 1944; three years after Woolf’s death.