Virginia Woolf

Orlando: A Biography is a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have before or since. Inspired by the life of Woolf's friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, an accomplished poet and novelist, the story follows the life of an aristocratic nobleman who changes sex from man to woman and goes on to live for centuries, meeting all of the most influential and powerful...

Einer der berühmtesten Romane der englischen Literatur schildert einen einzigen Tag im Leben einer Frau – und fasst zugleich die Tiefe eines ganzen Lebens voller Leerstellen und in engen Grenzen: An einem warmen Junitag im Jahr 1923 spaziert Clarissa Dalloway über die Bond Street, um Blumen für ihre bevorstehende Abendgesellschaft zu kaufen. Die Glockenschläge von Big Ben begleiten ihren Tag, ihr Wiedersehen mit dem Jugendfreund Peter Walsh,...

Warum werden eigentlich so übermäßig viele Bücher von Männern geschrieben? Geistige Freiheit hängt von materiellen Dingen ab, betont Virginia Woolf in ihrer großen Streitschrift, einem Schlüsselwerk des Feminismus. Und die hatten Frauen über Jahrhunderte nicht. Jede Frau sollte "fünfhundert Pfund im Jahr und ein eigenes Zimmer" haben. Das ist Unabhängigkeit. Axel Monte hat den brillanten Essay übersetzt, mit den nötigen Erläuterungen...

This collection of five of Virginia Woolf' s earliest stories explores the role of women in society, and hints at the stylistic form that would go on to define her later writing.

Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings 22 of best essays of Virginia Woolf, across a wide range of subjects, including writing, feminism, Jane Austen, literature, poetry and many more topics. The book contains the following texts: Introduction by Edmund Gosse The Modern Essay A Room of One's Own Modern Fiction How Should One Read A Book? How It Strikes...

Presented here is Volume III of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist novels ever written: “Orlando: A Biography” by Virginia Woolf, “O Pioneers!” by Willa Cather and “So Big” by Edna Ferber. The first book in this collection is “Orlando: A Biography”, a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have...

Una casa encantada se centra en la historia de dos parejas que comparten la misma casa, con la peculiaridad de que una de ellas es un matrimonio de espectros. El relato es muy breve, pero es suficiente para que Virginia Woolf comience a experimentar en sus teorías narrativas. Virgina Woolf fue hija del crítico literario, periodista e historiador de literatura inglés, Leslie Stephen, se casó con Leonard Woolf con quien fundó la editorial Hogarth...

This is Virginia Woolf's first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the 'common reader' - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She read, and wrote, as an outsider: a woman set to school in her father's library, denied the educational privileges of her male siblings - and with no fixed view of what constitutes 'English literature'. What...

Do not think, because this collection of essays is titled Volume 2, that there is anything lesser or additional to it. Here is Virginia Woolf at her most entertaining and informative, relishing the portraits and insights she presents as she surveys a varied collection of individuals in English society and English literature. The subjects range from the Elizabethans to Thomas Hardy, and then concludes, unexpectedly, with 'How Should One Read A Book?'...

In The Hours, the acclaimed author Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the story of her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize—winning novel together with Woolf's masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work...