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Román Orlando (Orlando, č. 1994) z roku 1928 hrál pro autorku zcela zásadní roli, patrně je to i nejdelší milostný dopis, který kdy v literatuře vznikl, a Woolfová jej píše sobě samé. Orlando je téměř nesmrtelná bytost, na své cestě prochází dějinami od počátku sedmnáctého století, doby Alžběty I., až do století dvacátého, což dává autorce prostor vyjádřit se k postupným proměnám společenských mravů. Orlando se proměňuje z muže v ženu, aby jí už navždy zůstal. Autorka se v této impresionisticky laděné próze snaží o zachycení prchavého okamžiku a zároveň o propojení minulosti a přítomnosti a významně analyzuje otázky genderu, identity a tvořivosti. Snímek Orlando z roku 1992 je pokusem Sally Potterové přetlumočit do filmové řeči tento fantastický, fiktivní román a díky skvělým hereckým výkonům a esteticky neobyčejně vytříbené inscenaci je považován za vynikající literární adaptaci, jakkoliv nebylo snadné přenést na odlišné médium všechny vzájemně se překrývající časové roviny románové předlohy.Orlando je téměř nesmrtelná bytost, na své cestě prochází dějinami od počátku sedmnáctého století, doby Alžběty I., až do století dvacátého, což dává autorce prostor vyjádřit se k postupným proměnám společenských mravů.

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A Penguin Classics Deluxe editon of Virginia Woolfâ ™s pioneering novel, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal GirlFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando is a young sixteenth-century nobleman who gallops through the centuries, from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to Virginia Woolfâ ™s own time. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey â “ a nobleman, traveller, writer? Man or . . . woman?Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is one of Woolfâ ™s most popular and accessible novels, a playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure that is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolfâ ™s own words, a writerâ ™s holiday that delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf s Orlando The longest and most charming love letter in literature , playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth s England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.

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Orlando is a young Elizabethan nobleman whose wealth and status afford him an extravagant lifestyle. Appointed ambassador in Constantinople, he wakes one morning to find he is a woman. Unperturbed by such a dramatic transformation, and losing none of his flamboyance and ambition, the newly female Orlando charges through life and English history so that by the end of this extraordinary biography she is a modern, 1920s woman. Virginia Woolf s wildly imaginative, comic novel was inspired by the life of her lover, Vita Sackville West. This beautiful Macmillan Collector s Library edition of Orlando is published with the original illustrations and with an introduction by the academic and novelist, Professor Susan Sellers.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector s Library are books to love and treasure.

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A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit The Times Literary SupplementFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf s own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf s own words, a writer s holiday which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert

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The fictional portrait of Woolf’s close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, the hero Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, a dreamy and romantic youth who wakes up one day to find himself transformed, astonishingly, into a woman. Over the span of three centuries, Orlando will fall in love many times and rub shoulders with the great artists and writers—and observe how differently history treats men than women. Bold and tender, Orlando is a truly multi-faceted work that has been hailed as a satire of biography, a queer classic, and a loving portrait of an irrepressible spirit.

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Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I⠙s court favourites, is the object of many ladies⠙ attentions, but after suffering heartbreak he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any thoughts of marriage. Having obtained an ambassadorial post in Constantinople, Orlando falls into a long sleep and wakes up suddenly transformed into a woman. Also blessed with the gift of never ageing, she embarks on adventurous travels throughout Europe and the following centuries, observing what it is like to be female.A ⠜fantastical biography⠝ inspired by the life of the flamboyant writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is an amusing and eccentric jeu d⠙esprit, as well as a groundbreaking exploration of gender issues.

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A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit The Times Literary SupplementFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf s own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf s own words, a writer s holiday which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN DUNMORE As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth s court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, 36-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.

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In the sixteenth century, Orlando enjoys life as a nobleman â “ including a fleeting yet deep love affair with a Russian princess, and an eventful stint in Constantinople as an ambassador. However, one day, Orlando awakes as a woman. She relishes her new life, but everything has irrevocably changed.

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I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books...I want to kick up my heels be off. Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman; of his/her encounters with queens, kings, novelists, playwrights, and poets, and of his/her struggle to find fame and immortality not through actions, but through the written word. At its heart are the life and works of Woolf s friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. But as well as being a love letter to Vita, Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history, teases the pretensions of contemporary men of letters, and wryly examines sexual double standards. This new edition discusses Woolf s stylistic aims, the biographical parallels, and the work s literary context, and includes the original illustrations. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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One of the BBC s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.â ˜The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.â ™Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West, â ˜Orlandoâ ™ is Woolfâ ™s playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents, gender and identity, we follow Orlandoâ ™s adventures in love â “ from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London.First published in 1928, this tale of unrivalled imagination and wit quickly became the most famous work of womenâ ™s fiction. Sexuality, destiny, independence and desire â “ all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in womenâ ™s writing.

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Kniha – autor Alexandra Harrisová, 222 stran, česky, pevná s přebalem matná Virginia Woolfová patří k literárním ikonám dvacátého století: málokdo měl na vývoj moderní prózy větší vliv než ona. Proč tomu tak je, ukazuje výmluvně přední britská kulturní historička Alexandra Harrisová. Její nové biografii Virginie Woolfové se v anglofonních zemích dostalo nadšeného kritického přijetí i mimořádného čtenářského ohlasu, zejména díky autorčině schopnosti barvitě a srozumitelně vykreslit Woolfové život i dobu a skrze živý detail přiblížit její geniální literární dílo. Těm, kdož Woolfovou neznají, nabízí Alexandra Harrisová čtivý úvod do spisovatelčina díla, znalcům modernistické spisovatelky pak neotřelé a novátorské interpretace jejích velkých děl, založené na důkladné znalosti předmětu. Alexandra Harrisová (1981) vystudovala anglistiku na Oxfordu; v současnosti přednáší na University of Liverpool. Kritická biografie Virginie Woolfové je její druhou knihou; její...

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První román proslulé anglické spisovatelky vyšel v roce 1915 a Woolfová na něm pracovala v době, která pro ni byla neobvykle těžká, a kdy trpěla opakujícími se depresemi. Dílo si drží tradiční románovou podobu, ale již v sobě skrývá zárodky toho, co zdobí autorčinu vrcholnou tvorbu: inovativní vypravěčský styl, vhled do ženské psychiky, téma sexuality a smrti. V roce 1920 si Virginia Woolfová do deníku napsala: „Každý den od dvanácti do jedné si čtu Plavbu... je to taková směsice obrazů – místy jasně srozumitelných a vážných – místy hravých a povrchních – místy pravdivých jako slovo Boží – místy silných a plynoucích lehce a dokonale... Nad nedostatky se rdím studem, a pak věta, jasnozřivě vyjádřená představa mi tváře rozpálí úplně jiným pocitem. Vlastně musím tu mladou ženu obdivovat: jak odvážně se vrhá přes překážky – a psát tedy opravdu umí, to se jí musí nechat!“

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Virginia Woolfová patří k literárním ikonám dvacátého století: málokdo měl na vývoj moderní prózy větší vliv než ona. Proč tomu tak je, ukazuje výmluvně přední britská kulturní historička Alexandra Harrisová. Její nové biografii Virginie Woolfové se v anglofonních zemích dostalo nadšeného kritického přijetí i mimořádného čtenářského ohlasu, zejména díky autorčině schopnosti barvitě a srozumitelně vykreslit Woolfové život i dobu a skrze živý detail přiblížit její geniální literární dílo. Těm, kdož Woolfovou neznají, nabízí Alexandra Harrisová čtivý úvod do spisovatelčina díla, znalcům modernistické spisovatelky pak neotřelé a novátorské interpretace jejích velkých děl, založené na důkladné znalosti předmětu. Alexandra Harrisová (1981) vystudovala anglistiku na Oxfordu; v současnosti přednáší na University of Liverpool. Kritická biografie Virginie Woolfové je její druhou knihou; její literárněhistorický debut Romantic Moderns získal řadu ocenění, mj. prestižní cenu The Guardian First Book Award za rok 2010.

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Audiokniha: Virginia Woolfová si sala deník od roku 1915 až do své smrti roku 1941. Zaznámenávala nejen nejbějžnější věci - kam ten den šla, s kým se setkala, jak se zrovna cítila -, ale také se v zápiscích sousřeďovala na společensko-politické dění v Anglii i v Evropě, získáme z nich například poměrně obsažný obrázek o dění v její vlasti za druhé světové války. Především však byly vybírány záznamy, v nichž se zabývala vlastní tvorbou, nebo díly spisovatelů, které zrovna četla, ať už z důvodů pracovních ci profesních, nebo čistě pro potěšení.

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V románe K majáku z roku 1927 sa Virginia Woolfová, jedna z najinovatívnejších autoriek a najuznávanejších literárnych kritičiek dvadsiateho storočia, zameriava na rodinné vzťahy a napätie medzi mužmi a ženami. Prostredníctvom prúdu vedomia prezentuje vnútorný svet viacerých členov rodiny Ramsayovcov pri ich zápase so sklamaním a stratou. Príbeh rozdelený na tri časti sa odohráva pred prvou svetovou vojnou aj po nej, počas návštev v letnom sídle Ramsayovcov na ostrove Skye v Škótsku.

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Audiokniha: Očima kokršpaněla Flushe - a tedy nejen z nezvyklého úhlu pohledu, ale také s jemnou ironií - popisuje Virginia Woolfová zrod a vývoj velké, naplněné lásky dvou mimořádných osobností: básnířky Elisabeth Barrett-Browningové, autorky slavných Portugalských sonetů, a jejího pozdějšího manžela, rovněž básníka Roberta Browninga. Úsměvné vyprávění v podání Jiřiny Jiráskové.

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A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf s The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics.More than any of Virginia Woolf s other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of The Bloomsbury Group . This informal collective of artists and writers, which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One s Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay.If you enjoyed The Waves, you might like Woolf s Mrs Dalloway, also available in Penguin Classics. A book of great beauty and a prose poem of genius Stephen Spender Full of sensuous touches ... the sounds of her words can be velvet on the page Maggie Gee, Daily Telegraph

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Virginia Woolf s only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell s comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the author s own account of her early life holds new fascination - for its unexpected detail, the strength of its emotion, and its clear-sighted judgement of Victorian values. In Reminiscences Virginia Woolf focuses on the death of her mother, the greatest disaster that could happen , and its effect on her father, the demanding patriarch who took a high toll of the women in his household. She surveys some of the same ground in A Sketch of the Past , the most important memoir in this collection, which she wrote with greater detachment and supreme command of her art shortly before her death. Readers will be struck by the extent to which she drew on these early experiences for her novels, as she tells how she exorcised the obsessive presence of her mother by writing To the Lighthouse. The last three papers were composed to be read to the Memoir Club, a postwar regrouping of Bloomsbury, which exacted absolute candour of its members. Virginia Woolf s contributions were not only bold but also original and amusing. She describes George Duckworth s passionate efforts to launch the Stephen girls; gives her own version of Old Bloomsbury ; and, with wit and some malice, reflects on her connections with titled society.

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Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf’s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel’s disparate cast. A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf’s novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.

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On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway â “ fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess â “ sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own isolation and loneliness. Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf s Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading. This elegant Macmillan Collectorâ ™s Library edition of Virginia Woolf s modernist classic features an afterword by editor and publisher Anna South. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector s Library are books to love and treasure.

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To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia Woolf s finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate occasions, ten years apart. The setting is Mr and Mrs Ramsay s house on a Scottish island, where they traditionally take their summer holidays, overlooking a bay with a lighthouse. An experimental work that pushes the limits of what we know about the world and ourselves, Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthouse is one of the most beautifully crafted of all novels written in the English language.This Macmillan Collectorâ ™s Library edition features an afterword by Sam Gilpin.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector s Library are books to love and treasure.

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Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Weaving together soliloquies from the novel s six characters, Woolf delicately and expertly explores universal concepts such as individuality, the self, and community. A novel still as poignant today as it was when written. Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf s response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died when he was twenty-six.

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Virginia Woolf s masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf s masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter

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With To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf presents us with an examination on perspective and experience, built upon highly autobiographical scenes at a family retreat in the coast of Scotland. The novel deftly employs stream of consciousness and other modernist literary techniques to a strong effect. Our edition brings this classic to a new level with exceptional design and production throughout. As is typical, we offer the reader extensive additional materials on the life and character of Virginia Woolf, featuring also depictions of the colourful Bloomsbury Set, who largely made up her most important social connections.

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Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf s last novel, and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the book weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of a war which is to change the pattern of history. Before the book was published in the spring of 1941, Virginia Woolf had taken her own life. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing and under what conditions they might break free, to the solace derived from haunting London s streets, these essays and stories present Woolf at her most impassioned, rendering the pursuit of liberty one of life s most poetic adventures. Selected from the books A Room of One s Own, The Waves and Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia WoolfVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the worldâ ™s greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Love by Jeanette WintersonHome by Salman RushdieLanguage by Xiaolu GuoRace by Toni Morrison

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Virginia Woolf⠙s first fully realized work of fiction⠔published in its final, revised form for the first timeA beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical ⠜cottage of one⠙s own,⠝ battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alikeIn 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet⠔a teasing tribute to Woolf⠙s friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories. The typescript revealed that Woolf had finished this mock-biography, making it her first fully realized literary experiment and a work that anticipates her later masterpieces. Published here for the first time in its final form, The Life of Violet blends fantasy, fairy tale, and satire as it transports readers into a magical world where the heroine triumphs over sea-monsters as well as stifling social traditions. In these irresistible and riotously plotted stories, Violet, who has powers ⠜as marvelous as her height,⠝ gleefully flouts aristocratic proprieties, finds joy in building ⠜a cottage of one⠙s own,⠝ and travels to Japan to help create a radical new social order. Amid flights of fancy such as a snowfall of sugared almonds and bathtubs made of painted ostrich eggs, The Life of Violet upends the marriage plot, rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition, and celebrates women⠙s friendships and laughter. A major literary discovery that heralds Woolf⠙s ambitions to revolutionize fiction and sheds new light on her great themes, The Life of Violet is first and foremost a delight to read. This volume features a preface, afterword, notes, and photographs that provide rich historical, literary, and biographical context.

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Mezi lety 1915–1941 si Woolfová psala deník, poslední zápis je datován čtyři dny před její smrtí. Nepsala však denně, zpravidla jednou za několik dní. Deník nicméně poskytuje přehled o tom, co oněch sedmadvacet let dělala, o lidech, které potkávala, a zejména, co si myslela o nich, o sobě, o životě. Když zemřela, zůstalo po ní 26 svazků rukopisu. Tuto knihu tvoří výňatky z deníků, které editoval její manžel L. Woolf.

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V eseji Tři Guineje, která vznikla roku 1938, se Woolfová myšlenkově vyrovnává s hrozbou války a s otázkou, jak se má v dané situaci zachovat žena. Její nečekaná, pro mnohé provokativní odpověď, která odmítá přijmout zhoubnou dualitu fronty a týlu, se snaží proniknout klamavými zástěrkami onoho míru, jenž je pouze pokračováním války jinými prostředky, a vede k rozboru oné agresivity, jež hluboce proniká i sférami kultury a vzdělanosti a vybíjí se v ponižování žen. Vlastní pokoj, text přednášek pronesených roku 1928 na dvou anglických dívčích vysokých školách, se řadí ke klasickým dílům feministického myšlení. Otázka vztahu žen a literatury se stala Woolfové příležitostí k zamyšlení, ve kterém obratně využívala žánry literární analýzy, společenské kritiky, vyprávění a meditace a spojila vážnost s úsměvným nadhledem. Čtenář cítí, že i u Woolfové je tvůrčí duch onou žhavou tavnou směsí prostou zloby a slučující obě pohlaví, již nachází u Shakespeara, a právě proto její eseje zůstávají nadčasové.

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When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with the shifts of time and reality, this long-delayed excursion will also prove to be a journey of self-discovery and fulfilment for them. Rich in symbolism, daring in style, elegiac in tone and encapsulating Virginia Woolf s ideas on life, art and human relationships, To the Lighthouse is a landmark of twentieth-century literature and one of the high points of early Modernism.

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As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold.One of Virginia Woolfâ ™s most famous novels, Mrs Dalloway is a triumph of experimentation, a cornerstone of Modernism and a subtle examination of love, freedom, mental illness and the female condition in society.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield.Virginia Woolf s singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa s life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith, whose madness escalates as his life draws toward inevitable suicide.

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Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf s greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again Greta GerwigMr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel s opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bringing with it war and death, and the summer home stands empty until one day, many years later, the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.One of the great literary achievements of the 20th century, To the Lighthouse, is at once an intensely autobiographical and universally moving masterpiece about changing relationships and attitudes amongst the early 20th-century middle class. To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time Margaret Drabble Thrillingly introspective The Independent

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions.To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf s novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.

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Discover the most popular of Woolf s books during her lifetime - a powerful portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century. The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf s novels during her lifetime, and is a powerful indictment of Victorianism and its values. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf s characters in Mrs Dalloway.Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that haunts each person.One of Virginia Woolf s most accomplished novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes that it tackles. The sense that Clarissa has married the wrong person, her past love for another female friend and the death of an intended party guest all serve to amplify this stultifying existence.

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful . In such conditions, Virginia Woolf takes to London s streets in search of a pencil.The account of her journey - the people, the places, the pleasure - soon becomes one of the great paeans to city life. This collection also includes other wonderful essays, such as How Should One Read a Book? and The Sun and the Fish .

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Virginia Woolf s singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa s life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith, whose madness escalates as his life draws toward inevitable suicide.

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Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf s masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.

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Celebrate a vital work of feminism with this limited run special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf s sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press.This book is among the greatest contributions to feminist literature of the past century - a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One s Own is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism.

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Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found â ˜the figure of their dog made me laugh so, I couldn t resist making him a Life.â ™ The resulting â ˜biographyâ ™ combines sensuous imaginative description with sharp social comment, and brings Woolfâ ™s unsentimental humour and insight to the fore. We see Flush as loyal confidant to Elizabeth on her sickbed at Wimpole Street, and from his jealous perspective we witness her courtship by Browning, their elopement and new life in Italy. The perfect accessible introduction to Woolfâ ™s genius, a unique blend of fact and fiction, Flush is perhaps best read in the company of a canine companion.This edition includes the four original illustrations by Vanessa Bell and an afterword by Margaret Forster.Cover designed by the award-winning Finnish designer Aino-Maija Metsola

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This volume brings together Virginia Woolfâ ™s last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweaves comedy, satire and disturbing observation.Rewriting the traditional family saga and the pageant, these unsettling novels provide extraordinary critiques of Englishness and English identity while pursuing compelling existentialist and psychological themes such as the nature of time, memory, personal relationships and sexual desire. Their tightly constructed narratives enable the reader to experience the fragmented lives of their characters and the difficulties that they have in communicating with each other and even understanding themselves. Read together, these novels illuminate each other in ways that will engage both the student and the general reader.

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Virginia Woolfâ ™s stream-of-consciousness modernist masterpiece.

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