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"...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."
Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head.
Moving seamlessles in and out of the minds of all her characters, you get the impression that Virginia Woolf understood people better than anyone else. With its incredibly beautiful prose it is no wonderthat 'Mrs. Dalloway' is considered one of the best books ever written.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). -
È un corpo nuovo quello in cui si risveglia Orlando. Un corpo in cui, come presto si accorgerà, non potrà più usufruire degli stessi privilegi, degli stessi diritti di cui aveva goduto fino a poco prima senza rendersene conto. Quando era a Londra, la sua vita alla corte della regina era sicuramente diversa. Ora a Costantinopoli per questioni diplomatiche, il suo destino è indubbiamente cambiato. Ma questa sua nuova condizione non è un peso, anzi, dopo aver preso coscienza della sua nuova identità, Orlando troverà qualcosa che prima non aveva.
L'opera della Woolf è rivoluzionaria e innovatrice, un caposaldo nella letteratura femminista e d'identità di genere.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) è stata una scrittrice inglese. Una delle figure chiave della letteratura modernista e della narrativa mondiale, Virginia Woolf ha scritto capolavori quali `La signora Dalloway' e `Gita al faro'. I suoi scritti sono contraddistinti da uno stile innovativo e avanguardistico e da forte tematiche sociali. A cavallo delle due guerre, l'autrice fece parte del Bloomsbury Group, un circolo londinese di artisti bohemien socialmente attivi e interessati a questioni all'epoca poco attuali, quali il pacifismo, la sessualità e il femminismo. -
One family. One island.For ten years, the Ramsay family never miss a visit to the Isle of Skye. And tensions, trembles, and twists are never far away when a family comes together on holiday. But we'll soon learn that things are never one-sided. You've got to deep dive into everyone's perspective to truly unravel the riddle that is family love and life...We've got the motherly Mrs Ramsay, the mighty Mr Ramsay, and their eight mad and merry children. What could possibly go wrong?Virginia Woolf's introspective `To the Lighthouse' is the perfect read for fans of the novel's BBC radio 4 15-minute dramatisation by Linda Marshall Griffiths.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a hugely influential English writer and modernist of the 20th-century literature scene. A pioneer in the narrative device of streams of consciousness, Woolf's breathtaking collection spans `The Waves', `Mrs Dalloway', `Orlando' and the non-fiction title `A Room of One's Own'. Ranging from the raw and real themes of war, shellshock, and witchcraft to the role and rise of social class in British society, Woolf's literary output is a subject of intense interest for literature lovers and scholars alike.
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"Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married."
Katharine Hilbery is a priviledged young woman at a crossroads. Should she marry the poet William Rodney, who is more interested in her famous poet grandfather than in her, or persue her attraction to the passionate, but penniless lawyer Ralph Denham? While she tries to decide, her life is affected by two other women who are fighting their own, very different wars.
'Night and Day' (1919) is a simple yet beautiful narrative, more similar in style to the writing of the Brontë sisters than to her own later novel 'To the Lighthouse' (1927).
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). -
"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older."
'Jacob's Room' (1922) is Virginia Woolf's third novel and established her influence as a symbolic writer. It centres around the life of Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man struggling to harmonise his admiration for Classical culture with the anarchic reality of contemporary society.
Written as a character study of Flanders, the novel is built upon the impressions of those who inhabit his world - mostly women who fall helplessly in love with him.
By frequently making use of colour references, Woolf paints a vivid picture of the characters and the surroundings creating a painting-like narrative of the novel itself.
'Jacob's Room' is written in a stream-of-consciousness-like style and - of which Woolf was a pioneer - is experimental in its form and rhythm, separating it from Wolf's usual writing style and making it an inherently experimental piece of literature.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). -
Inspired by the humorous family history of Woolf's lover and friend, Vita Sackville-West, the eponymous Orlando is an immortal trans poet from the 16th century. Wining and dining with the literary greats to probe, pressure, and persuade the thinkers and feelers of each age, he abruptly turns into a woman at the ripe old age of 30. Again and again. Crafting an irresistible guide of English literature in visual form, Orlando: A Biography' remains a spearhead of gender and trans studies today, and is ideal for fans of Owen Wilson in `Midnight in Paris'.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), a hugely influential English writer and modernist, addressed themes from war and shellshock to the role of social class in British society in her writing. Translated into over 50 languages, Woolf's breath-taking collection spans `The Waves', `Mrs Dalloway', `Orlando', and `A Room of One's Own', and she remains today an original feminist and thinker of the late 19th century.
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"Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees... one's happiness, one's reality?"
A family of four is walking around Kew Gardens in London, lost in their thoughts. The husband thinks of the girl who turned down his marriage proposal in this very garden many years ago. When asking his wife if it upsets her that he's thinking about this other woman, she reasons that one's past is like ghosts lying under the trees.
Only Virginia Woolf can write a short story about completely ordinary things and people and make you long for more. With exquisite prose, she invites you along as she examines the beauty of normal summer's day.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). -
"Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall."
'The Mark on the Wall' is about a woman sitting in her chair, starring at a mark on the wall, but if you think that is all it is, you are in for a surprise. In a series of stream of consciousness, which Virginia Woolf mastered so well, the narrator contemplates the cause of this unknown mark, and in doing so, reveals much about both herself and the society she is a part of.
'Two Stories' was originally published by Virginia Woolf's and her husband Leonard Woolf's own publishing house, Hogarth Press, in 1917. The book also includes Leonard Woolf's short story 'St Brides Bay'.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). -
"Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall."
Yes, 'The Mark on the Wall' is about a woman sitting in her chair, starring at a mark on the wall, but if you think that is all it is you are in for a surprise. In a series of stream of consciousness, which Virginia Woolf mastered so well, the narrator contemplates the cause of this unknown mark, and in doing so, reveals much about both herself and the society she is a part of.
Woolf's first published story, 'The Mark on the Wall' is often taught as an example of "introspective writing" and is included in several anthologies.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). -
The Common Reader - First Series
Virginia Woolf
- Saga Egmont
- World Classics
- 2 Novembre 2021
- 9788726507720
"There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure."
'The Common Reader' is a collection of essays that, as the title suggests, is for the common reader -- the one who reads for pleasure's sake. Shedding academic language and the high brow style, Virginia Woolf explores authors like Jane Austen and George Eliot and tackles topics such as Modern Fiction and the Common Readers themselves.
Witty, brazen and intelligent, Woolf makes the reader feel included as were they participants in these very analyzes.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). -
"Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls."
Our narrator is attenting a classical music concert given by a string quartet, and while seated there, she catches snippets of conversations around her, and reflects upon the different responses listening to music can inspire.
Writing about music is difficult, but Virginia Woolf manages with poetic language and impressionistic images that awake with the reader exactly the music she's trying to convey. 'The String Quartet' was published in her short-story collection 'Monday or Tuesday' in 1921.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). -
"Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky."
A writer is trying to capture things in words, wanting to be truthful. But as anymore who has ever tried to write anything knows, distractions are never far off: a cry from the left, a cry from the right, a clock that strikes twelve... But maybe that is not a bad thing.
You may find that reading 'Monday or Tuesday' is a disorientating experience. It is supposed to be. As simple as it is, Woolf shows you exactly what it is like to be a writer and what it means the find Truth.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). -
La famiglia Ramsay è in vacanza sull'isola di Skye, in Scozia. Nei primi due giorni si uniscono a loro amici e colleghi: la situazione è apparentemente conviviale e serena, ma le tensioni familiari non tardano a emergere. Il faro, simbolo di luce, diventa presto motivo di discordia tra i coniugi Ramsay, evidenziando i contrasti che caratterizzano le loro personalità. Ma sarà proprio questo faro a riaccendere la speranza del signor Ramsey, quando sua moglie perderà tragicamente la vita durante la Prima guerra mondiale...
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) è stata una delle più importanti e influenti scrittrici britanniche di tutti i tempi. Giovanissima, inizia a scrivere per il supplemento letterario del 'Times' di Londra. Si dedica poi alla scrittura di romanzi che coniugano il romanticismo con costruzioni sintattiche e costrutti linguistici all'avanguardia. Tra le sue opere più celebri, ricordiamo 'La crociera', 'La signora Dalloway', 'Gita al faro' e 'Le orde'. -
Virginia Woolf dreamed of the Day of Judgment.
The "great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen" come to receive their rewards - crowns, laurels, names carved on marble.
But, when he sees people coming with books under their arms, God turns to Peter and says: "Look, those need no reward. We have nothing to give them here.
"They have loved reading."
And this is the essence of her essay - sheer love for the written word: a joy in exploring the thoughts and imaginings of the author.
If you sometimes get bogged down in a book, Woolf has produced the perfect self-help manual and motivational guide to reading.
If you enjoyed 'How Should One Read a Book?', try 'How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading', by Mortimer J Adler.
"To read a novel is a difficult and complex art," says Virginia Woolf.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) made an impact during her life, but her fame grew in the decades after her death.
The English writer helped launch the use of stream-of-consciousness in literature and was a pioneer of 20th century modernism.
Arguably her greatest legacy, though, comes from how her writing helped to inspire the feminist movements of the second half of the 20th century.
Along with members of her family and other authors, Woolf helped found the Bloomsbury Group.
After she married the political theorist and author Leonard Woolf in 1912, they went on the found the Hogarth Press.
Virginia also had a long relationship with the writer Vita Sackville-West. The affair featured in the 2018 movie Vita and Virginia', starring Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki,
He best-known works include the novels 'Mrs Dalloway', 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando'. -
Cities in Literature: London
Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, William Makepeace Thackeray
- Saga Egmont
- Books to Read Before You Die
- 4 Janvier 2024
- 9788728576298
You're invited to wander the streets of Victorian London with the nation's literary greats. Weaving a remarkable collection from the very best writers, tales of love and loss never felt so good...With classics such as Charles Dicken's `Oliver Twist', you'll peak behind the scenes at one of the West End's most loved musicals. You'll then laugh till you cry at the lives of London's high society in Thackeray's `Vanity Fair' and Virginia Woolf's `Mrs Dalloway'. But it's not all rosy and bright in 18th-century London. In Oscar Wilde's `The Picture of Dorian Gray', we'll question and query the true worth of excess. And if the streets of London weren't strange enough, you'll also be led down a gothic and gory investigation involving Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde...Crafting a rip-roaringly dramatic and vivid portrait of Victorian life in London, this impressive collection is perfect for fans of the silver screen adaptions `Oliver!' (1968) and `Dorian Gray' (2009).Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and one of the most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. His works include `The Picture of Dorian Gray' and `The Importance of being Earnest'Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, and travel writer. He is best known for `Treasure Island' and `Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a hugely influential English writer. A pioneer in the narrative device of streams of consciousness, Woolf's breathtaking collection spans `Mrs Dalloway', `To the Lighthouse', and the non-fiction title `A Room of One's Own'.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was a British author and novelist. He is best known for his satirical works, including `Vanity Fair', `The Luck of Barry Lyndon', and `Second Funeral of Napolean'.Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist and social critic, known for creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters. His works include `Oliver Twist', `A Christmas Carol', and `Great Expectations'.
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A party of English people are headed for South America on a boat. One of them is 24-year-old Rachel Vinrace, a naïve and sheltered young woman. Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who sets out to teach Rachel "how to live". Maturing through conversations about politics, art, science, religion and relationships, Rachel eventually falls in love with Terence Hewet, a young writer. A haunting exploration of one young woman's mind, Virginia Woolf's first novel "The Voyage Out", published in 1915, shows the very beginnings of her experimental style. Told through steam of consciousness and shifts in focus between central and peripheral characters, this is the novel in which one of Woolf's most famous and beloved characters, Mrs. Dalloway, is first introduced.