The Common Reader' is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. The title indicates Woolf's intention that her essays be read by the educated but non-scholarly "common reader," who examines books for personal enjoyment. Woolf outlines her literary philosophy in the introductory essay to the first series, "The Common Reader," and in the concluding essay to the second series, "How Should One Read a Book?" The first series includes essays on Geoffrey Chaucer, Michel de Montaigne, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad, as...

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, which centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporal and psychological elements. To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel...

Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it looks forward to the war, with veiled allusions to connection with the continent by flight, swallows representing aircraft, and plunging into darkness. The pageant is a play within a play, representing a rather cynical view of English history. Woolf links together...

The book 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 narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction", and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument...

A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death. The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921: "A Haunted House" "Monday or Tuesday" "An Unwritten Novel" "The String Quartet" "Kew Gardens" "The Mark on the Wall" The next six appeared in magazines between 1922 and 1941 : "The New Dress" "The Shooting Party" "Lappin and Lappinova" "Solid Objects" "The Lady in the Looking-Glass" "The Duchess and the Jeweller" The final six were unpublished, although only "Moments...

»Morgen, ja, natürlich nur, wenn schönes Wetter ist«, sagte Mrs. Ramsay. »Aber dann mußt du schon mit der Lerche aus dem Nest«, fügte sie hinzu. Für ihren Sohn waren diese Worte eine außerordentliche Freude; als stünde damit unumstößlich fest, daß die Unternehmung stattfinden würde und das Wunder, nach dem er sich, seit Jahren und Jahren, so schien es ihm, gesehnt hatte, nach der Dunkelheit einer Nacht und der Segelfahrt eines Tages nahe wäre. Und da er schon jetzt, mit seinen sechs Jahren, zur großen Sippe derer gehörte, die ein Gefühl nicht vom anderen scheiden kann,...

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence,...

This is a edition that includes short stories of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). Virginia Woolf is one of the most famous English writers who was a novelist, diarist, letter writer, polemicist and critic as well as a short story teller. Content: Kew Gardens Monday or Tuesday A Haunted House and Other Short Stories Mrs Dalloway's Party The Complete Shorter Fiction "Carlyle's House and Other Sketches"

Immer wieder hat sich Virginia Woolf mit der Frauenfrage befasst. Am berühmtesten ist wohl ihr hellsichtiger Essay Ein Zimmer für sich allein (1929). In Vom Verachtetwerden, zehn Jahre später erschienen, ist Woolfs Ton weniger ironisch, ihre Haltung unnachgiebiger. Kurz vor Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs fragt sie sich, wie Frauen einen Krieg verhindern sollen, wenn sie ausgeschlossen sind von Aufgaben in Öffentlichkeit und Politik, und übt damit grundsätzliche Kritik am Patriarchat. Auf eindrückliche Weise verbindet Woolf hier schon früh das Private mit dem Politischen, den Aufstieg...

Die Biographie des Londoner Malers und Kunstkritikers Roger Fry ist Virginia Woolfs letztes Buch, veröffentlicht ein Jahr vor ihrem Tod. Dass sie es schrieb, war Frys ausdrücklicher Wunsch: Ihr Leben lang hatte die Schriftstellerin sich nicht nur literarisch - etwa in der fiktiven Biographie Orlando und in Flush, der Lebensgeschichte eines Cocker spaniels -, sondern auch in Essays mit der Frage auseinandergesetzt, wie man über das Leben eines Menschen schreiben könne. Ihr Freund Roger Fry schlug ihr vor, ihre Überlegungen an seiner Biographie auszuprobieren. Entstanden ist...