Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Virginia Woolf's First Viterary Debut 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 satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. St John Hirst is a...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Virginia Woolf's First Viterary Debut Rach...
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham.
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William...
Woolf's first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South american coast.
Woolf's first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London t...
Como otras obras de la autora, "Al faro" es tambien una de las obras mas valoradas de la literatura del siglo XX. Basada en la propia infancia de la autora, narra la historia de la familia Ramsey en la isla escocesa de Skye, en el periodo de entreguerras. El rumor del mar, la presencia insomne del faro, la guerra, la muerte, el erotismo o el paso del tiempo se mezclan formando un oleaje de simbolos, palabras e imagenes."
Como otras obras de la autora, "Al faro" es tambien una de las obras mas valoradas de la literatura del siglo XX. Basada en la propia infancia de la a...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- London, Early 20thC. Four characters; two men and two women, estranged by their social status but tightly knotted by the invisible strings of their restrained yearnings feature the storyline of this novel. More traditional in style and form than Woolf's later and more exploratory works, Night and Day, as the title implies, juxtaposes the struggles of a younger generation to disengage from the corseted legacy of the Victorian era and to find a place in the shifting tides of impending...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- London, Early 20thC. Four characters; two men and two ...
Woolf began work on The Voyage Out in 1910 and had finished an early draft by 1912. The novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not published until 1915. It was written during a period in which Woolf was especially psychologically vulnerable.She suffered from periods of depression and at one point attempted suicide.The resultant work contained the seeds of all that would blossom in her later work: the innovative narrative style, the focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death. In 1981, Louise DeSalvo published an alternate version of The Voyage Out featuring its original...
Woolf began work on The Voyage Out in 1910 and had finished an early draft by 1912. The novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not published...
Is love and marriage the key to happiness? Set in Edwardian London, Virginia Woolf's "Night and Day" is a classic novel that explores life's most important decisions with a rich literary texture. It was originally published in 1919 and this new edition brings the book back to life with a cover and new typefaces that pay tribute to the first edition.
Is love and marriage the key to happiness? Set in Edwardian London, Virginia Woolf's "Night and Day" is a classic novel that explores life's most impo...
A collection of twenty nine of Virginia Woolf's essays including: ""Jane Eyre"" and ""Wuthering Heights,"" The Patron and The Crocus, The Modern Essay, The Death Of The Moth Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car, Three Pictures, Old Mrs. Grey,
A collection of twenty nine of Virginia Woolf's essays including: ""Jane Eyre"" and ""Wuthering Heights,"" The Patron and The Crocus, The Modern Essay...
Woolf began work on The Voyage Out in 1910 and had finished an early draft by 1912. The novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not published until 1915. It was written during a period in which Woolf was especially psychologically vulnerable. She suffered from periods of depression and at one point attempted suicide. The resultant work contained the seeds of all that would blossom in her later work: the innovative narrative style, the focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death. Woolf's first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose...
Woolf began work on The Voyage Out in 1910 and had finished an early draft by 1912. The novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not published...