Woolf Virginia: 358 books

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character...

Pour Virginia Woolf, les livres doivent tenir tout seuls sur leurs pieds : ils n’ont besoin d’aucune exégèse pour être appréciés par leurs lecteurs. C’est vrai mais cela ne l’a pas empêchée – pour notre bonheur – de consacrer plus d’un article à ses confrères auteurs vivants...

En 1926, a petición de T. S. Eliot para su revista The New Criterion, Virginia Woolf publicó un pequeño ensayo donde lamentaba que «la enfermedad no haya ocupado su lugar, con el amor, las batallas y los celos, entre los principales temas de la literatura». Su propia experiencia la llevaba a...

Scritti a partire dal grand tour che Virginia Woolf, già celebre critica letteraria, compì poco prima di pubblicare il primo romanzo, i diari di viaggio raccolti in questo volume ci permettono di esplorare il lato più intimo e privato di una delle massime autrici del Novecento.Inediti in Italia,...

In questa breve raccolta sono state scelte alcune delle lettere che Virginia Woolf scrisse dal 1888 al 1900. Sono gli anni che vanno da un’infanzia di divertimenti domestici a una prima adolescenza di terribili lutti, come quello della madre e della sorellastra Stella, fino al compimento dei suoi...

Cesaret dolu bir yaşam, çalışmakla geçen yıllar, umutsuzluk, bekleyiş, verimsiz arayış günleri ve sonun getirdiği yalnızlık korkusu; bütün bunlar olası aldatmacasını hemen yadsıdığı şu küçük cümlenin teminatından başka gerekçeye yer bırakmaz: "Fakat bir gün elimize...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer,...

Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922.The novel centres, in a very ambivalent way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said...

ROOM OF ONE'S OWN is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional...

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centers on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary...

" Les animaux dont elle était couverte attendirent que s'élève son cinquième ronflement avant d'esquisser le moindre mouvement. Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq... Enfin la vieille femme dormait. " Dans son fauteuil Windsor, Mrs Lugton coud un rideau, au coin du feu. Quand la gouvernante...

The London Library is the world's largest independent library. Founded in 1841 by Thomas Carlyle (in reaction to the "museum headache" brought on by the crowds in the British Museum Reading Room), it has become a haven for readers, writers and all who draw strength, solace or inspiration...

女性若是想要寫作，一定要有錢和自己的房間。——維吉尼亞．吳爾芙 Thinking is My Fighting. 吳爾芙帶領我們找回女性創作與雌雄同體的身影， 預言莎士比亞的妹妹就在你我身旁出現！ 《衛報》、《時代雜誌》百大非文學作品＋《世界報》20世紀百大書籍 出版近90...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...