Virginia Woolf

Depicts the events, thoughts, and actions of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway.

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. But had she been allowed to create, urges Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immoral sibling. In this classic essay, Virginia Woolf takes on the establishment, using...

The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered her most experimental work, and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers 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...

Este ebook presenta "Una casa encantada ", con un sumario dinámico y detallado.El único volumen de cuentos debido a Virginia Woolf que vio la luz pública durante su vida. Virginia Woolf siempre tuvo la costumbre de escribir relatos, de vez en cuando. Cuando se le ocurría la idea de un relato, solía esbozarlo de forma muy rudimentaria y guardarlo en un cajón. Luego, si un editor le pedía un cuento, y Virginia Woolf tenía el humor propicio para...

An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.

Such an expression of unhappiness was enough by itself to make one's eyes slide above the paper's edge to the poor woman's face-insignificant without that look, almost a symbol of human destiny with it. Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of-what? That life's like that, it seems. Five faces opposite-five mature faces-and the knowledge in each face....

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Early Writings: The Voyage Out + Night and Day + Monday or Tuesday and Other Short Stories + Jacob's Room (4 books in 1 ebook)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure...

Este ebook presenta el relato de "Lunes o martes" escrito por Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) fue una novelista, ensayista, escritora de cartas, editora, feminista y escritora de cuentos británica, considerada como una de las más destacadas figuras del modernismo literario del siglo XX. Durante el período de entreguerras, Woolf fue una figura significativa en la sociedad literaria de Londres y un miembro del grupo de Bloomsbury....

In her stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's gender-bending, period-hopping novel, award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl "is her usual unfailingly elegant, unbeatably witty self, cleverly braiding her own brand-name wit with Woolf's" (New York ) magazine. Preserving Woolf's vital ideas and lyrical tone, Ruhl brings to the stage the life of an Elizabethan nobleman who's magically transformed into an immortal woman. In her fresh translation of Three Sisters,...

Wanting to "ease [her] brain" after writing The Waves, Virginia Woolf turned to the correspondence between poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning-and found in their love letters an unexpected inspiration in their shared joy and affection for Flush, their cocker spaniel. As she put it, "the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life." Here Flush tells his story as well as the love story of Robert Browning and his...