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Virginia Woolf
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'Woolf's pivotal novel ... the writer feels her way into becoming the giantess she would be' Paris ReviewVirginia 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. Its protagonist, Katharine Hilbery, is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she tries to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, struggling with the weight of history - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Briggs
'A strange, tragic, inspired book ... It is absolutely unafraid' E. M. ForsterA party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is a young girl, Rachel Vinrace, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, books, sex, love and marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, but her greatest discovery will be her own self. Virginia Woolf's first novel, published in 1915, is a haunting exploration of a young woman's mind, signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries and complexities of the inner life. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jane Wheare
A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf; Anne O. Bell; Woolf
Mariner Books Classics
1992
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Selections from the diaries of Virginia Woolf share her observations on English social life, literature, politics, and her own work
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until one day, many years later, the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse
Nach einer behüteten Kindheit bei ihren "kleinen, ziemlich blassen" Tanten in Richmond bricht Rachel Vinrace auf dem Schilf ihres Vaters, der :Euphrosyne9, nach Südamerika auf. Während dieser :Fahrt hinaus9 erfährt sie zum erstenmal "eine Offenbarung ihrer eigenen Persönlichkeit, eine Offenbarung von sich selbst als wirklichem, dauerhaftem Ding, verschieden von allem anderen, unverschmelzbar, wie das Meer oder der Wind". In Santa Marina wird Rachel in den privilegierten englischen Zirkel aufgenommen, aber sie ist abgestoßen von der sterilen Selbstzufriedenheit der Menschen, denen sie dort begegnet. Selbst die Liebe und das Glück, die sie mit dem jungen Schriftsteller Terence Hewett findet, können sie nicht völlig befriedigen, denn "sie wollte viel mehr als die Liebe eines einzigen Menschen". Rachels plötzlicher Tod unterstreicht die Hoffnungslosigkeit und zugleich die Schönheit ihres romantischen Idealismus.
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
Zu Virginia Woolfs Lebzeiten erschien nur ein Band mit Kurzprosa, und zwar :Montag oder Dienstag9. Er enthielt acht Erzählungen. Bis zur Veröffentlichung des hier nun auf deutsch vorliegenden Bandes (1985 in London erschienen, in erweiterter Ausgabe 1989) waren selbst auf englisch lediglich 21 Erzählungen Virginia Woolfs erhältlich. Diese Ausgabe enthält 46 Erzählungen und Skizzen, von denen 28 bisher noch nie ins Deutsche übersetzt waren. Sie vereint die gesamte von ihr selbst und ihrem Mann Leonard Woolf aus dem Nachlaß veröffentlichte Kurzprosa und alle unveröffentlichten Stücke. Die Sammlung ist chronologisch angeordnet, so daß dem Leser neue Einsichten in den schriftstellerischen Werdegang Virginia Woolfs eröffnet werden. In den Erzählungen experimentiert die Autorin mit erzähle-rischen Methoden, Themen und sogar einzelnen Figuren, wie Mrs Dalloway, die sie dann in ihren Romanen breiter angelegt fortführte. :Das Mal an der Wand9 präsentiert nicht nur die maßgebliche Textfassung von jeder Erzählung, der Band enthält auch Kommentare mit den wichtigsten Informationen, die u. a. die Entstehungsgeschichte der abgedruckten Fassungen skizzieren.
Letters of Virginia Woolf 1932-1935
Virginia Woolf; Nigel Nicolson
Mariner Books Classics
1982
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The penultimate volume of Woolf's letters, when the author was between the ages of 50 and 53, covers the composition of the Years and the death of Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry. "Her wit flashes, often unexpectedly, in letters of almost every kind" (New Yorker). Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index.
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume II: 1912-1922
Virginia Woolf; Nigel Nicolson
Mariner Books Classics
1978
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Halvin toimitettuna 38,50 €
Over six hundred letters covering the first decade of the Woolfs' marriage; the publication of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, and Jacob's Room; the founding of Hogarth Press; the years of World War I; Virginia's two periods of insanity and an attempted suicide. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index; photographs.
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 1 (1888-1912): The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf; Nigel Nicolson
Mariner Books Classics
1977
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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.
Contemporary Writers: Essays on Twentieth-Century Books and Authors
Virginia Woolf
Mariner Books Classics
1976
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Here, in more than forty essays, are Woolf's thoughts on her contemporaries in the art of fiction; reviewing and criticism; and one of her favorite themes, female novelists. Among the writers reviewed are Dorothy Richardson, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Theodore Dreiser. Preface by Jean Guiguet.
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
Virginia Woolf
Mariner Books Classics
1974
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Halvin toimitettuna 22,60 €
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.
Collects essays written by the English novelist on literary, historical, and political topics
The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.
Virginia Woolf wrote "Mrs. Dalloway" in 1925 and printed it. Woolf is renowned for this particular work and for its narrative style of stream-of- consciousness. Here's a quick overview and analysis: In summary: The novel is set in London during just one day in June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is an upper class woman whose life it follows as she prepares for a function she is hosting later on that evening. The day advances as the story investigates the thoughts as well as memories of various characters, revealing elements of their the, relationships, and lives society where they find themselves. The plot centers around Clarissa's party preparations but also looks at Septimus Warren Spencer, a World War I veteran with shell shock (now known as PTSD). The world of Clarissa's upper class society is starkly different from his experiences and degraded psychological state. Analysis: The Stream-of-ConsCIousness Narrative: "Mrs. Dallow's" narrative style is characterised by a stream-of-consciousness format, and is among its most remarkable features. Woolf exposes the internal workings of her characters and effortlessly switches from one to another's ideas. The non-linear and associativ character of the human mind is reflected in this style, which captures its internal workings.
Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman. Jacob is presented in glimpses, in fragments, as Woolf breaks down traditional ways of representing character and experience. The novel's composition coincided with the consolidation of Woolf's interest in feminism, and she criticizes the privilege thoughtless smugness of patriarchy, "the other side," "the men in clubs and Cabinets." Her stylistic innovations are conscious attempts to realize and develop women's writing and the novel dramatizes her interest in the ways both language and social environments shape differently the lives of men and women.