Books by Virginia Woolf

En junidag i 1939 samles en gruppe mennesker på det engelske gods Pointz Hall for at se det årlige landsbyfestspil. Men under den idylliske og traditionsbundne begivenhed ulmer bevidstheden om den forestående verdenskrig.Sørgmodigt, humoristisk og med en kolossal sproglig kraft skildrer Woolf sine karakterer og deres bevidsthedsstrømme på denne flygtige sommerdag – deres store og små problemer og den ofte fortvivlende banalitet, der kendetegner dem.Mellem akterne blev Virginia Woolfs sidste bog, afsluttet kort før hendes selvmord i 1941. Romanen blev udgivet posthumt."...så stor lyrisk nerve, så stor og melankolsk, men også humoristisk og forløsende menneskelig indsigt, at man gribes om det, der vist ikke findes bedre ord for end hjerterødderne."- Berlingske Tidende"Mellem akterne er litteratur i særklasse ..."- Fyens Stiftstidende"En storladen og perspektivrig roman ..."- Nordjyske Stiftstidende"Raffineret og energisk"- Jyllands-Posten"Woolfs sidste roman (...) i en – fantastisk – dansk oversættelse ..."- PolitikenVirginia Woolf (25. januar 1882 – 28. marts 1941) var en engelsk forfatter og feminist. Hun spillede en afgørende rolle i det engelske forfattermiljø og er kendt for at have været forud for sin tid – både hvad angår indhold og skrivestil. Hun er blevet anerkendt som en af det 20. århundredes vigtigste forfattere. Hendes mest berømte romaner er 'Mrs. Dalloway' (1925), 'Til fyret' (1927) og 'Bølgerne' (1931). Virginia Woolf kæmpede med psykisk sygdom hele sit liv og begik selvmord som 59-årig.

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful'. In such conditions, Virginia Woolf takes to London's streets in search of a pencil. The account of her journey - the people, the places, the pleasure - soon becomes one of the great paeans to city life. This collection also includes other wonderful essays, such as 'How Should One Read a Book?' and 'The Sun and the Fish'.'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' Guardian

Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel of feminism, existentialism, and self-realisation is an essential read for all lovers of classic literature.

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of SpeculationA Penguin Vitae Edition"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. In a novel in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself.Penguin Vitae-loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"-is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.Story Locale: London

Mrs Dalloway is a novel that features two main characters and two different worldviews. On the one hand, there is Clarissa Dalloway, who being labelled as Mrs, symbolises her marital and social confinement.

This important new edition adopts the text of the first British edition of the novel, published in London on 15th March 1937. A comprehensive introduction details the lengthy process of the composition and revision of the novel, and its subsequent publication history.

Highly symbolic, and dealing with many of the themes that were most dear to Virginia Woolf, such as the condition of the individual in the current of history, sexual ambiguity and the tension between life and art, Between the Acts was the author's final novel. This edition includes notes and extra material.

La famiglia Ramsay è in vacanza sull’isola di Skye, in Scozia. Nei primi due giorni si uniscono a loro amici e colleghi: la situazione è apparentemente conviviale e serena, ma le tensioni familiari non tardano a emergere. Il faro, simbolo di luce, diventa presto motivo di discordia tra i coniugi Ramsay, evidenziando i contrasti che caratterizzano le loro personalità. Ma sarà proprio questo faro a riaccendere la speranza del signor Ramsey, quando sua moglie perderà tragicamente la vita durante la Prima guerra mondiale...Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) è stata una delle più importanti e influenti scrittrici britanniche di tutti i tempi. Giovanissima, inizia a scrivere per il supplemento letterario del 'Times' di Londra. Si dedica poi alla scrittura di romanzi che coniugano il romanticismo con costruzioni sintattiche e costrutti linguistici all'avanguardia. Tra le sue opere più celebri, ricordiamo 'La crociera', 'La signora Dalloway', 'Gita al faro' e 'Le orde'.

One of the most innovative authors and distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf examines family dynamics and the tensions between men and women in her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. She explores multiple perspectives of the members of the Ramsay family as they navigate experiences of disappointment and loss. Divided into three parts, the story takes place pre- and post-World War I during visits to the Ramsays' summer residence on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Virginia Woolf strove to write a new fiction that emphasized the passage of time as both a series of sequential moments and a longer flow of years and centuries, as well as exploring the essential indefinability of character. To the Lighthouse is among her most successful experiments in her pioneering use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device in addition to such groundbreaking novels as Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Voyage Out.

"e;I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older."e; 'Jacob's Room' (1922) is Virginia Woolf's third novel and established her influence as a symbolic writer. It centres around the life of Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man struggling to harmonise his admiration for Classical culture with the anarchic reality of contemporary society.Written as a character study of Flanders, the novel is built upon the impressions of those who inhabit his world - mostly women who fall helplessly in love with him. By frequently making use of colour references, Woolf paints a vivid picture of the characters and the surroundings creating a painting-like narrative of the novel itself. 'Jacob's Room' is written in a stream-of-consciousness-like style and - of which Woolf was a pioneer - is experimental in its form and rhythm, separating it from Wolf's usual writing style and making it an inherently experimental piece of literature. -