Books by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's second novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.The book has four major characters: Katharine Hilbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney. Night and Day deals with questions concerning women's suffrage and asks whether love and marriage can coexist and whether marriage is necessary for happiness. Motifs throughout the book include the stars and sky, the River Thames, and walks. Woolf makes many references to the works of William Shakespeare, especially As You Like It.

Described by Virginia Woolf herself as 'easily the best of my books', To the Lighthouse is a milestone of Modernism. Set on the Isle of Skye, the narrative centres on a promise which isn't to be fulfilled for a decade. Bearing all the hallmarks of Woolf's prose, To the Lighthouse has earned its reputation - it has lost not an iota of brilliance.

Part of the Hero Classics seriesΓÇ£Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.ΓÇ¥Based on two talks given by the author, and first published in September 1929, Virginia Woolf''s seminal essay revolves around the central claim that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Outlining the importance of education and financial independence, Woolf draws up a history of women writers and demonstrates how they had to operate as outsiders in a society that sought to exclude them.The Hero Classics series:MeditationsThe ProphetA Room of OneΓÇÖs OwnIncidents in the Life of a Slave GirlThe Art of WarThe Life of Charlotte BronteThe RepublicThe PrinceNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By far the most accessible and traditional of all Virginia Woolf's novels, Night and Day, is a powerful evocation of a fast-changing world and, though conventional in style, addresses many of the author's recurring preoccupations, such as the role of women in society and the difficulties in reconciling love and marriage.

The most ambitious of Woolf's novels, and the last one to be published during her lifetime, The Years is a work suffused with a haunting, melancholy sense of time and history, and a stylistic tour de force.

"One of her greatest achievements, a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers." ¿ The Guardian This modernist masterpiece, originally published in 1925, chronicles a day in the life of an upper-class Englishwoman. Revolutionary in its psychological realism, the third-person narrative switches between Clarissa Dalloway and her fictional counterpart, Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked World War I veteran. Virginia Woolf''s pioneering stream-of-consciousness technique portrays the fragmented yet fluid nature of time and illustrates the commonality of perceptions shared across social barriers. A major literary figure of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) wrote such groundbreaking essays as "A Room of One''s Own" in addition to numerous letters, journals, and short stories. Her other novels include To the Lighthouse and Orlando.

"Illuminating and original combination of biographical, historical, literary, and critical sources for Mrs. Dalloway by the leading Woolf scholar who edited the annotated edition of the novel. Diary and letter selections provide fresh contexts. Superb resource for teachers and students!"-Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Waves is a wonderfully poetic experimental novel.Virginia Woolf was a luminous novelist, a prolific essayist and book reviewer, and a diarist. With her husband Leonard, Woolf established and ran the Hogarth Press which published works by influential modernist writers. In their first five years, they published Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Clive Bell, Roger Fry and Sigmund Freud. Woolf's haunting writing, her succinct insights into feminist, artistic, historical, political issues, and her revolutionary experiments with points of view and stream-of-consciousness altered the course of literature.

In 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on 'Women and Fiction'; she spoke about her conviction that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'. The following year, the two speeches were published as A Room of One's Own, and became one of the foremost feminist texts.

Einer der groen Romane Virginia Woolfs, den ihr Mann Leonard als "e;philosophisches Gedicht"e; bezeichnete: Im Zentrum der Geschichte, die sich uber ungefahr 10 Jahre erstreckt, stehen die einfuhlsame Mrs Ramsay und ihre Grofamilie. Auf ihrem Landhaus auf der schottischen Insel Skye beherbergt sie viele Gaste, wobei es weniger um die Aktivitaten als solche geht, sondern um das Interagieren der unterschiedlichen Familienmitglieder und Sommergaste untereinander.-

Mrs. Dalloway is one of Virginia Woolf's most famous works. The seminal novel follows a day in the life of English aristocrat Clarissa Dalloway in post-war London as she plans for a party whilst battling haunting memories of the past.Originally published in 1925, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, Mrs. Dalloway, is a short lyrical work that entwines the stories of three characters who are struggling to cope with life after World War I. Written in her trademark stream of consciousness, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is largely plotless and examines characters in a dreamlike style. Taking place over the course of a single day, the novel is set in London and explores the perspectives of three different characters living in the city. The raw intimate feelings of Dalloway are exposed, alongside that of her husband, Richard Dalloway, a Conservative MP, and Septimus Warren Smith, a war veteran who is suffering with PTSD.Embedded with themes of existentialism, feminism and mental illness, the book largely takes place in Clarissa Dalloway's memories. Clarissa's one talent is organising events, but while she busies herself in the planning of her latest party, her mind slips into distant recollections and Woolf allows her reader to delve into the past.Read & Co. Classics has proudly republished this much-loved Virginia Woolf novel in a new edition, complete with a specially commissioned author biography. Not to be missed by collectors of Woolf's work, Mrs. Dalloway is a classic of English literature that would be the perfect addition to any bookshelf.

Woolfs vorletzter Roman, mit dem sie groe Erfolge feierte: Dieser drei Generationen umspannende Familienroman, der sich von 1880 bis in die 1930er Jahre erstreckt, erzahlt das Leben der Londoner Offiziersfamilie Pargiter. Hierbei geht es um die Schicksale der Groeltern, Eltern und Kinder, die uber die Jahre begleitet werden. Die auf den ersten Blick fur Woolf ungewohnlich konventionelle Erzahlweise wird durch wiederkehrende, das Gestern und das Heute verbindende Augenblicke aufgebrochen.-

"Wo sollen wir anfangen? Wie sollen wir Ordnung in dieses vielgestaltige Chaos bringen und so die tiefste und breiteste Freude an dem bekommen, was wir lesen?" Virginia Woolfs kurzer, leidenschaftlicher Essay How Should One Read a Book?, der hier zum ersten Mal als eigenständiger Band veröffentlicht wird, feiert die anhaltende Bedeutung der großen Literatur. Entdecken Sie in diesem zeitlosen Manifest über das geschriebene Wort die Freude am Lesen und die Kraft eines guten Buches, die Welt zu verändern. Als eine der bedeutendsten Schriftstellerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts ist Virginia Woolf heute so aktuell wie vor hundert Jahren.

"To the Lighthouse" - The Ramsey family arrives to their summer house in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Sky in Scotland. They plan to visit the island''s lighthouse one day, but the weather doesn''t allow them and that creates some tension between family members. As the Ramsays have been joined at the house by a number of friends and colleagues, the trip to the lighthouse doesn''t happen. Passing of the time brings death and grief to the Ramsey family, but the tension is still there. "The Waves" consists of soliloquies spoken by six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though we never hear him speak in his own voice. The soliloquies that span the characters'' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. As the six characters or "voices" speak Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self and community. Each character is distinct, yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness.

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?

- Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral."Si se atuvieran a la propia experiencia, sentirían siempre que eso no es lo que quieren, que no hay nada más aburrido y pueril e inhumano que el amor, pero, que al mismo tiempo, es bello y necesario."Ante la enormidad de la vida, con sus largos años y su final que pareciera que nunca llegará, ¿qué nos motiva a vivirla? Cuando un viaje prometido de una madre a un hijo se ve aplazado en el tiempo, movida desde el futuro cercano a la perpetuidad, ¿Qué se siente saber que el viaje nunca llegará?La residencia Ramsay conocerá la muerte y la pérdida a medida que venga. Son aspectos inseparables de la vida, pero a la vez lo son el amor y la euforia de conocerse a sí mismo en el transcurso de los años.Adeline Virginia Woolf fue una de los mayores exponentes de los escritores modernistas del siglo XX. Es conocida por su uso de la corriente de la consciencia como voz narrativa, exponiendo los sucesos de una historia como si fueran vistas desde la mente del narrador. Comenzó a escribir en su adolescencia, llegando a ser uno de los autores más aclamados de Inglaterra a comienzos del siglo XX, publicando sus obras en su propia imprenta, Hogarth Press.

Mrs. Dalloway er en stærk fortælling af Virginia Woolf. Overklassefruen Clarissa Dalloway skal holde fest, og vi er med på selve dagen, hvor hun forbereder sig. Vi lærer om hendes syn på livet, det engelske samfund i mellemkrigsårene samt hendes tanker om de personer, hun har inviteret til festen. Via romanens andre hovedaktører – en krigsveteran, en tilbeder fra hendes ungdom og en ungdomsveninde – lærer vi om andre holdninger end dem politikkerfruen Mrs. Dalloway er garant for.Mrs. Dalloway anses i engelsk litteratur som værende en klassiker. Denne version er oversat af Hans Peter Andersen med henblik på at bibeholde Virginia Woolfs skarpe stil.God læselyst.

This edition is for students and academics of Woolf's works. It aims to be as comprehensive as possible in providing an authoritative text, hundreds of explanatory notes and an extensive introduction describing the composition of the novel and its critical reception 1922-41.

First published in 1922, "Jacob's Room" is Virginia Woolf's third novel and a surprising and innovative departure from her other work. It is the life story of the character Jacob Flanders, from his childhood in pre-war England, through his time at Cambridge, and following him into his adulthood and travels abroad. The novel is told entirely from other character's viewpoints, most often from the women in Jacob's life, and focuses on their memories and feelings. Considered to be a highly experimental novel, "Jacob's Room" is a study in character development, as well as perception and emotion. Jacob primarily exists as a character or object in the lives of others and the reader experiences him through the eyes of the women rather than as an individual in his own right. Woolf, through the use of symbology, stream of consciousness, monologue, and brief dialogues, brilliantly focuses her novel on the psychology of her characters instead of any specific plot or action of the story. "Jacob's Room" is a critically acclaimed impressionistic work that focuses on the very meaning of existence and identity. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

An extraordinary departure from traditional forms of the novel, Jacob's Room is both an elegiac and experimental tale told in pieces and fragments, and one of Virginia Woolf 's most poignant stories.