Books by Virginia Woolf

Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends.

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.

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.

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions.To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.

A seminal, widely studied feminist polemic that touches on both literature and politics, A Room of One's Own is essential reading for those wishing to understand the progress that has been made in women's rights and the struggles that still lie ahead.

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.

'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.

A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim.

Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness modernist masterpiece.

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Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women's struggle for independence and creative opportunityA Room of One's Own is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, it is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister, and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. The work was ranked by The Guardian newspaper as number 45 in the 100 World's Best Non-fiction Books. Part of the bestselling Capstone series, this collectible, hard-back edition of A Room of One's Own includes an insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve that explains the book's place in modernist literature and why it still resonates with contemporary readers.Born in 1882, Virginia Woolf was one of the most forward-thinking English writers of her time. Author of the classic novels Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters and biographies, and a member of the celebrated Bloomsbury Set of intellectuals and artists.* Discover why A Room of One's Own is considered among the greatest and most influential works of female empowerment and creativity* Learn why Woolf's classic has stood the test of time. Make this attractive, high-quality hardcover edition a permanent addition to your library* Enjoy an insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve, who connects the themes of the text to the concerns of today's audienceCapstone Classics brings A Room of One's Own to a new generation of readers who can discover how Woolf's book broke new artistic ground and advanced the position of women writers and creatives around the world.

'A landmark of feminist thought and a rhetorical masterpiece' GuardianRanging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given by Woolf at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Published almost a decade later, Three Guineas breaks new ground in its discussion of men, militarism and women's attitudes towards war. These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolf's indomitable spirit, sophisticated wit and genius as an essayist.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Mich le Barrett

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.'Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West, 'Orlando' is Woolf's playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents, gender and identity, we follow Orlando's adventures in love - from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London.First published in 1928, this tale of unrivalled imagination and wit quickly became the most famous work of women's fiction. Sexuality, destiny, independence and desire - all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in women's writing.

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Presents essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve, Gibbon and Horace Walpole. This title is suitable for for students, common readers and scholars alike.

With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield.Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith, whose madness escalates as his life draws toward inevitable suicide.

En stærk og flimrende fortælling om familieforhold og kvinderoller, om krigens destruktivitet og kunstens skabelsespotentiale. Det er tiden omkring første verdenskrig. Familien Ramsay holder sommerferie på øen Skye i Hebriderne, og blandt gæsterne er den ugifte kunstner Lily Briscoe. Hendes modbillede er husmoderen mrs. Ramsay, hjemmets engel. I spændingsfeltet mellem disse to kvinder lader Virginia Woolf romanens kalejdoskopiske univers udfolde sig. Gennem indre monologer og et fortættet billedsprog fortæller Viginia Woolf en stærk historie om familieforhold og kvinderoller, om krigens destruktivitet og kunstens skabelsespotentiale. Til fyret er en del af Rosinantes klassikerserie og indledes her med et personligt forord af den danske forfatter Merete Pryds Helle.

'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' GuardianIt is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell the stories of English history, as it does every year. Yet the coming of war broods over the whole community, changing the meaning of past and present, and heralding a new act. Through her characters' passionate musings and private dramas, and through the enigmatic figure of the pageant's author, Miss La Trobe, Virginia Woolf's playful final novel both celebrates and mocks Englishness, and re-creates the elusive role of the artist.Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Gillian Beer

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.

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.

In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. She raises questions concerning militarism, education, and social and gender inequality that are relevant to this day.

A beautiful collector's edition of Virginia Woolf's revolutionary essay.

Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf's, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break away from the demands of the previous generation without disowning it altogether. Katherine must decide whether or not she loves the iconoclastic Ralph Denham; Woolf seeks a way of experimenting with the novel for that still allows her to express her affection for the literature of the past.This is the most traditional of Woolf's novels, yet even here we can see her beginning to break free; in this, her second novel, with its strange mixture of comedy and high seriousness, Woolf had already found her own characteristic voice.

'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret DrabbleTo the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow of war, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of all that had gone before.Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Hermione Lee

Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen. Now, an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman.

Virginia Woolfs stilistisk virtuose roman om Orlando, der lever over fem århundreder og skifter køn undervejs, men forbliver ung. Med dette greb undersøger Woolf, hvordan man forholder sig til sin tid og til sit køn, og hvordan de traditionelle kønsroller er begrænsende for begge køn. Romanen hævdes at være en biografi om forfatteren Vita Sackville-West. Orlando fødes som dreng i London i midten af det 16. århundrede. Ved fortællingens begyndelse er han en 16-årig skønhed, en del af den britiske adel og drømmer om at blive forfatter. Han forelsker sig ulykkeligt i en russisk prinsesse og flytter til Konstantinopel som ambassadør. I Konstantinopel skifter Orlando pludselig køn og bliver kvinde. I kraft af dette kønsskifte har Orlando nu begge køns bevidstheder, og herefter udfoldes en emotionel og intellektuel refleksion over kønsroller gennem tiden. Orlando lever en tid med sigøjnere, hvorefter hun vender tilbage til London og tilpasser sig sit nye liv som kvinde. Hun føler sig ensom og skriver digte, hun aldrig bliver tilfreds med. Under en gåtur, nu i det 19. århundrede, bevæger hun sig hurtigere og hurtigere, falder og bliver reddet af en sømand, som hun forelsker sig i og gifter sig med. Sammen får de i starten af det 20. århundrede en søn, og Orlando får udgivet et digt, som hun vinder en pris for. Fortællingen slutter den 11. oktober 1928, samme dag som romanen Orlando udkom 1928, samme dag som romanen Orlando udkom Pressen skriver: »Virginia Woolfs berusende fantasyroman ' Orlando' går i blodet og i benene, som en rastløs rejse gennem tid og rum, kredsende om eksistensens grundspørgsmål.« – Politiken