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Exam board: Edexcel, OCR, Cambridge Assessment International Education Level & Subject: AS and A Level English Literature Next exams: 2027 This edition of Mrs Dalloway provides depth and context for A Level students, with the complete novel in an easy to
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her fathers ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South America. Despite being accompanied by her father and her aunt and uncle, Helen an
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. 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 Woolfs own joyfu
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, Consume me Six friends traverse the uneven road of life together in Virginia Woolfs most unconventional cl
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be h
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, th
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary 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 di
Virginia Woolf unveils the societal barriers faced by women and explores the crucial link between women's financial independence and creative freedom in this extraordinary collection of essays. Initially presented as lectures in 1928 at Newnham Colleg
'Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic poems to typhoid, odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no with a few exceptions literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body
Introduction and Notes by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham. 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the
A Room of Ones Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolfs best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. The
This volume brings together Virginia Woolfs 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
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
First published in 1921 as part of her ground-breaking short-story collection Monday or Tuesday, Kew Gardens follows the thoughts of a set of characters walking past a flower bed in the royal botanic garden on a hot July day. Interweaving the thoughts of
'I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble the Almighty
"Ak, også den mest detaljerede beskrivelse af Flush som hvalp og ung hund får vi kun ved at stole på poesien. Han var af den særlige nuance af mørkebrunt, der i solskinnet "glimter gyldent". Hans øjne var "så brune og yndigt milde"
'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It c
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 wo
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
Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. Virginia Woolfs essay begins by lamenting the surprise neglect of ill-health as a potential literary subject. What then unfolds is a dazzlingly written series
En stærk og flimrende fortælling om familieforhold og kvinderoller, om krigens destruktivitet og kunstens skabelsespotentiale. Det er tiden omkring første verdenskrig. Familien Ramsay holder sommerferie på øen Skye i Hebriderne, og blandt gæsterne er den
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art? Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity a room of ones own. All things de
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
Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at d
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
Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of Ones Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores wi
"Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings eponymous cocker spaniel, charting the dogs early days in the countryside, his adoption by the famous p
En junidag i 1939 samles en gruppe mennesker på det engelske gods Pointz Hall for at se det årlige landsbyfestspil. Men under den idylliske og traditionsbundne begivenhed ulmer bevidstheden om den forestående verdenskrig. Sørgmodigt, humoristisk og med en
Virginia Woolfs sjældne lille essay Om at være syg nyoversat af Karsten Sand Iversen. Med humor og alvor beskriver hun den syge krop, der ofte er blevet overset eller helt ignoreret; hvordan det føles indefra, de forskellige stader og følelser, der kan op
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Orlando had become a woman there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he ha
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, Consume me Six friends traverse the uneven road of life together in Virginia Woolfs most unconventiona
WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMAN The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched liv
'The ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in the earth, with a curious expression. . .So heavy the woman came to a standstill opposite the oval shaped flowerbed, and ceased even to
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
'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many
Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that thinks with extraordinary precision and virtuosity about what modern novelists mean when they talk about character: how characters are born; how they age and grow; . . . how they reach for one another in moments of terror and
In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the brink of m
The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the births
'Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?' Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How
In 1928 Virginia Woolf gave two speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of 'Women and Fiction' speeches which went on to become A Room of One's Own, one of the most important feminist texts of all time. Following the success of
Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth Is 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
From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanderss story is told by the women in his life, whether through his mother
It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter siblings: twenty-year-old Eleanor, whose concern is to help the poor; her yo
It is a variable early summers day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote village in the very heart of England. The local community is all astir, intent on putting the finishing touches to preparations f
In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of 'Women and Fiction'; she spoke about her conviction that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction
Described by Virginia Woolf herself as 'easily the best of my books', and by her husband Leonard as a 'masterpiece', To the Lighthouse, first published in 1927, is one of the milestones of Modernism. Set on the Isle of Skye, over a decade
In these texts, Virginia Woolf considers the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when wo
A Room of One's Own is a seminal work of feminist literature, asserting that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf's 1929 extended essay is a powerful meditation on the historical and social co
Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days a
'For there she was.' Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London, in June 1923, as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and actions are interwoven with the trauma and bereavement
'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 w
'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?' A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 19
Jacob is a young boy living in the seaside city of Scarborough with his widowed mother and two brothers. These geographical and familial roots provide the youth with his first experiences of complexity.
Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge and into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-cla
Virginia Woolf fortæller om sin og den 3 år ældre søster Vanessas debut i Londons selskabsliv. Deres mor er død, så den snobbede halvbror George påtager sig opgaven, der udvikler sig katastrofalt. Men George nøjes ikke blot med at ledsage de to søstre.
'In "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf explores the profound connection between women and fiction, arguing that a woman's creativity requires both financial independence and personal space. Through a series of essays blending fict
A pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentiet
"A classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again." -- Greta Gerwig The authorized, original edition of one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century: a miraculous nov
'I shall never forget the day I wrote "The Mark on the Wall" - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. "The Unwritten Novel" was the great discovery, however. That - again in one second - showed me
'Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...' In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and th
'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening' To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parentho
'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith
'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woma
'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York Times Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achi
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Audie-Award Winner Pippa Nixon Pip pa Nixon, known for her roles in Unforgotten, John Carter and Mother Father Son. Once described as the 'longest and most charming love-letter in literat
'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith
'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woma
In Mrs Dalloway , Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day, impression by impression, minute by minute, as Clarissa Dalloway's and Septimus Smith's worlds look set to collide - this classic novel is beautifully repackaged as part of the Pengu
'He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed 'Truth! Truth! Truth!' we have no choice left but confess - he was a woman.' A young man in the court of the ageing Queen Eliza
it might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. Upper-class housewife Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party one June morning, when an encounter with an old suitor makes her question her marriage and brings up thoughts of her past. Mean
Im sick to death of this particular self. I want another. In the sixteenth century, Orlando enjoys life as a nobleman including a fleeting yet deep love affair with a Russian princess, and an eventful stint in Constantinople as an ambassador. However, on
Distance had an extraordinary power Every summer, the Ramsay family visit their holiday home in Scotland. It is where the children find themselves, and where the intricacies of adult relationships are uncovered. However, just a decade later, the family s
As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets Corner, is helping her mother write the biography of their illustrious progenitor, she becomes engaged to William Rodney, a budding writer with an exaggerated opinion of hi
Helen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne, a ship belonging to Helens brother-in-law Willoughby Vinrace. Travelling with them is his daughter Rachel a quiet, unremarkable girl
Only edition in print As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially made for the occasion, is clearly
First published in 1925, set 'one Wednesday in mid-June', Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of several characters across a day in London. While Clarissa Dalloway goes about preparing for a high-society party she is to host that evening, pondering on h
Virginia Woolfs essay Eget værelse blev til på baggrund af to forelæsninger i 1928 om kvinder og litteratur og om den kvindelige kunstners mulighed for at gøre sig gældende i en mandsverden. Det kræver, at "En kvinde må have penge og et værelse for s
Virginia Woolf's novel follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an outwardly self-assured London socialite, as she prepares for her party that evening. Mrs. Dalloway's interior monologue flits from preoccupation with the details of her part
An einem sonnigen Junimorgen des Jahres 1923 beginnt die begüterte Clarissa Dalloway mit den Vorbereitungen für eine elegante Abendgesellschaft. Im Verlauf des geschäftigen Tages überlässt sie sich immer wieder ihren Erinnerungen und Gedanken, und während
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in En
'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass' Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's daring experimentations with style and form more evident than in her short stories, which shimmer and flash with their au
The authorized, original edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece and one of the most "moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century" (Michael Cunningham), with a foreword by Maureen Howard. In this vivid portrait of a single day in
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Virginia Woolf knew all too well the fo
As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the `present day' of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, the social strictures of patriarchy, capitalism and
'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its first word,
'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the s
'A landmark of feminist thought and a rhetorical masterpiece' Guardian Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity
'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' Guardian It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell the stories of English history, as it does every year.
The lighthouse waits across the bay. Between the promise and the journey lies the whole fragile life of a family. Rediscover one of Virginia Woolfs greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children
The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel from Virginia Woolf. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up, experience friendship and love, and confront grief at the death of their belo
Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality. **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days a
'Sheer magic' Eileen Atkins, Daily Mail Discover one of the most famous and ground-breaking pieces of twentieth century literature about one day in the mind of woman as she prepares to give a party. In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman'
"A Room Of One's Own And Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)" er en roman af Virginia Woolf - en af de største kvindelige forfattere i historien. "A Room Of One's Own And Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)"
The Years follows the Pargiter family from 1880 into the twentieth century, moving through rooms, streets, parties, illness, memory, war and social transformation. In late Victorian London, Mrs Pargiter lies dying while the household turns around small ri
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 the figure of the
New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel. Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge Univer
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 givin
The first and collection of Virginia Woolf's most inspirational quotes. 'No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.' Over 100 words of wisdom from the inimitable Virginia Woolf on love, literature, feminism, food,
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." In A Room of One's Own , Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister--a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in geni
Widely heralded as one of the first truly modern novels, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" was published in 1925 and is one of the author's most popular and critically acclaimed works. All of the events of the novel take place on a single
The essay is written in a conversational and accessible tone, blending fiction and fact. Woolf adopts a semi-fictional narrator, allowing her to weave in stories, anecdotes, and hypothetical scenarios to illustrate her points. Her fluid prose and use of s
'Woolf's pivotal novel ... the writer feels her way into becoming the giantess she would be' Paris Review Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, ques
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
'Woolf is modern ... With Joyce and Eliot she has shaped a literary century' Jeanette Winterson Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. Virginia Woolfs wildly imaginative, comic novel was inspired by the life of her lover, Vita Sackville West. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classic
On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess 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
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 M
Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally draining The Waves, the
Una habitaci?n propia se estableci? desde su publicaci?n como uno de los libros fundamentales del feminismo. Basado en dos conferencias pronunciadas por Virginia Woolf en colleges para mujeres y ampliado luego por la autora, el texto es un testamento visi
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927) is a landmark of modernist literature, renowned for its lyrical style and stream-of-consciousness technique. Through the shifting inner voices of the Ramsay family and their guests, the novel meditates on time
Mrs Dalloway sagde, hun selv ville købe blomsterne. Med denne siden så berømmede sætning indledes romanen, der udspiller sig en enkelt sommerdag i London i juni 1923, hvor Clarissa Dalloway forbereder et aftenselskab. I løbet af dagen indtræffer flere hæn
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald. A map of Mrs. Dalloways London. An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including diary entries and letters related to the
This handsome gift edition presents Virginia Woolf's classic work, A Room of One's Own , featuring a luxurious gold embossed cover design, gilded page edges and patterned endpapers. One of the greatest arguments for female emancipation, A Room of
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own is a seminal essay that explores the intersection of gender and literature, advocating for women's intellectual freedom and creative independence. Through a blend of personal narrative, historical analysis,
Virgina Woolfs collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual arts, there is no accessible edition or selecti
'Nothing is any longer one thing.' From a teenage encounter with Elizabeth I, through infatuations, voyages and even a change of gender, Orlando lives out five centuries of life and love before they finally find the courage to truly be themselves.
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 ne
2023 Reprint of the 1927 edition. The subject of this brilliant novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides. "There are dozens of passages in which the secret relations of men and women, especially women, to the trifling events of li
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
Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on womens struggle for independence and creative opportunity A Room of One's Own is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women&#
The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the births
Virginia Woolf's greatest works, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, and Mrs. Dalloway, offer readers a captivating glimpse into the human experience. With her innovative writing style and acute observations of the human condition, Woolf explo
Virginia Woolf's only play-a hilarious farce taken from the life of her great-aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, the famous Victorian photographer. It was first performed at Vanessa Bell's London studio in 1935 as one of Bloomsbury's theatrical eve
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny, and bitterness.Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence, and shifting perspectives giv
Tracing a day in the life of society hostess Clarissa Dalloway, Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. First published in 1925, MRS DALLOWAY is her first complete rendering of what Woolf described as the 'luminous e
"By turns lyrical, self-mocking, and outlandish, Woolf's meditation on the perils and privileges of the sickbed lampoons the loneliness that makes one 'glad of a kick from a housemaid.' When Woolf imagines beauty in a frozen-over garden .
Virginia Woolfs essay Sit eget værelse blev til på baggrund af to forelæsninger om kvinder og litteratur oger i dag et centralt værk i feministisk tænkning og litteraturkritik. I 1928 holdt Virginia Woolf to forelæsninger på Cambridge University, hvor hun
In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway , the bustling streets of post-World War I London become a canvas for introspection. As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for her evening party, the novel intricately weaves the threads of memory, societal expectations, and
A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great fe
A Penguin Classics Deluxe editon of Virginia Woolfs pioneering novel, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl First masculine, then feminine, Orlando is a young sixteenth-century nobleman who gallops through th
One of the most distinguished critics and innovative authors of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published two novels before this collection appeared in 1921. However, it was these early stories that first earned her a reputation as a writer with &qu
The beautiful Everyman gift edition in hardback. The Lord Orlando's country seat has 365 rooms. An exquisitely beautiful youth, he is a favourite of the ageing Queen Elizabeth and enjoys all that Court and tavern have to offer. He falls passionately i
Virginia Woolf's most famous novel, now in a new edition that reflects all of the author's revisions to the work. This is the definitive edition of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, complete with a cover inspired by the or
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 Cunningham Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is pr
Known for her novels, and for the dubious fame of being a doyenne of the 'Bloomsbury Set', in her time Virginia Woolf was highly respected as a major essayist and critic with a special interest and commitment to contemporary literature, and women&
This Norton Critical Edition includes: • The American edition of the novel, first published by Harcourt Brace in 1927, introduced and annotated by Margaret Homans. • A 1924-28 chronology ofTo the Lighthouses composition, revision, publication an
Discover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest novels, To the Lighthouse. A masterful exploration of time, memory, and the complex dynamics of family life, this bestselling novel is an enduring work of modernist literature. Set on the Isle of Skye in Scotl
A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider... His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasin
The fictional portrait of Woolfs 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 s
Orlando: A Biography is a novel that transcends time and gender, following the life of a nobleman who changes sex and lives for centuries, witnessing the evolution of English literature and society. The protagonist s transformation from man to woman chall
Virginia Woolf's intention to publish her short stories is carried out in this volume, posthumously collected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday, seven that appeared in magazines, and five other stori
A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary
Virginia Woolfs Orlando can be daunting for new and experienced readers alike, but its pleasures await those willing to immerse themselves in this elusive and highly allusive text. This much-needed and long-awaited edition will prove a boon to readers, of
Virginia Woolf's 1919 novel "Night and Day", her second novel, is an examination of the relationships of its four main characters: Katharine Hilbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney. The granddaughter of a distinguished poet,
One of Virginia Woolf's most famous works, written as a reply to a letter she had received from a gentleman asking her opinion on preventing the looming war. Full of Woolf's insight and passion as a committed pacifist.
2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. The Common Reader, a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, was published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. This edition reprints the first series, first published in 1925. Most of the essays appea
Ny udgave. Virginia Woolfs stilistisk virtuose roman om Orlando, der lever over fem århundreder og skifter køn undervejs, men forbliver ung. Med dette greb undersøger Woolf, hvordan man forholder sig til sin tid og til sit køn, og hvordan de traditionelle
Mrs. Dalloway, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and f
Virginia Woolf's dazzling, time-defying novel of love, identity and transformation, brought to life with breathtaking interior art by Varvara Alay. Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the o
Celebrate a captivating novel with this special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press. There were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches
"Til fyret" er en stærk og flimrende fortælling om familieforhold og kvinderoller, om krigens destruktivitet og kunstens skabelsespotentiale. I tiden omkring første verdenskrig holder familien Ramsey sommererie på øen Skye i Hebriderne sammen me
Seks personer mødes i deres tidlige barndom og bliver venner for livet. Enkeltvist dukker deres stemmer op i fortællingens strøm og afslører deres mangfoldige liv. Gennem indre monologer og punktvise nedslag følger vi de seks skæbner og får deres glæder o
En sommermorgen i 1920'erne går den britiske overklassekvinde Clarissa Dalloway ud i et myldrende London for at købe blomster til det selskab, hun vil holde samme aften. Mens vi følger Clarissa Dalloways forberedelser, sender den strålende junidag hen
Hvordan oplever vores husdyr verden? I Flush giver Virginia Woolf ordet til digteren Elizabeth Barrett Brownings cocker spaniel og lader hundens perspektiv definere billedet af verden. Vi følger således hunden Flush fra dens tidlige år i landlige omgivels
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's delightful, boundary-pushing classic, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose da
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's great masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. Over the course of one day, as she read
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist critici
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts
"Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf.... This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her art without the distractions of a commentary"
A generous Contexts section provides extracts from Woolfs diaries and letters as well as comments on the novel from her fellow writers and friends, among them E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. Also included are the short stories The Mark on the Wall, Kew Gar
Celebrate the 100th birthday of a groundbreaking novel with this very special hardback based on the first edition published by the Hogarth Press. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. Over the
Celebrate a vital work of feminism with this special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press. Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them,
Part of the Chiltern Classics range As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party, the appearance of a former suitor stirs thoughts about choices she made long ago. Elsewhere in London, the past weighs heavily on Septimus Warren Smith, a man tormented by
This is the story of a woman and her family experiencing the passage of time and seeking to recapture meaning from the flux of things. Though Mrs Ramsay's death is the event on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocat
From English writer Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse explores the relationships and inner thoughts of a family on their visits to the Isle of Sky in Scotland. Considered a benchmark of the modernist tradition, the novel makes experimental use of third-pe
Virginia Woolfs samlede selvbiografiske skrifter, der forblev uudgivne længe efter hendes død udgives her for første gang på dansk i sin helhed ved oversætter Karsten Sand Iversen. To af bogens fem dele er tidligere udkommet i skriftserien Bestiarium til
Genudgivelse med nyt omslag. SIT EGET VÆRELSE af Virginia Woolf er et af de mest indflydelsesrige feministiske værker fra det 20. århundrede. Med sin karakteristiske blanding af erindring, ironi, fortælling og politisksmæld undersøger forfatteren kvinders
"Årene" er en fortælling om den victorianske middelklassefamilie Pagiter fra London, hvor man følger hvert enkelt familiemedlem gennem hjertesorger og tab, radikale livsændringer og kvælende ensformighed, ægteskab og fortrydelse. Familien Pagite
Virginia Woolfs stilistisk virtuose roman om Orlando, der lever over fem århundreder og skifter køn undervejs, men forbliver ung. Med dette greb undersøger Woolf, hvordan man forholder sig til sin tid og til sit køn, og hvordan de traditionelle kønsroller
The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part
Hvordan forhindres krig? Spørgsmålet stilles til Virginia Woolf på kanten til 2. verdenskrig. Hendes svar er denne bog. For at forhindre krig kræver det ifølge Woolf et opgør med den patriarkalske kultur, som leder til militarisme. Derfor skal kvinder gør
”En forfatters dagbog” er udvalgte tekststykker fra Virginia Woolfs dagbog fra 1918 og indtil hendes selvmord i 1941. Bogen giver et intimt indblik i en af moderne tids mest vigtige forfatteres tanker. Virginia Woolf skrev sideløbende med sit
To the Lighthouse is a book of interrelationships among peopl e. Those who reject To the Lighthouse as inferior to Mrs. Dalloway because it offers no one with half the memorable lucidity of Clarissa Dalloway must fail to perceive its larger and, artistica
A beautiful hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel. Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, To the Lightho
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Vitae Edition Every summer, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland's idyllic Isle of Skye, surround
It is an early summer's morning in 1923, and Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to host a party. As the day unfurls, her mind wanders through the landscape of her past, alighting on old lovers, suppressed desires and paths not taken. Interwoven with Clari
With an introduction by Virginia Nicholson Saturday 2 February 1918. The first walk we've had for ever so long. Damp, mild vaporous day. Funeral bells tolling as we went out, & marriage as we came in. The streets lined with people waiting their meat.
With an introduction by Adam Phillips Monday 17 July 1922. Back from Garsington, & too unsettled to write - I meant to say read; but then this does not count as writing. It is to me like scratching; or, if it goes well, like having a bath - which of cours
With an introduction by Olivia Laing Monday 20 April 1925. One thing in considering my state of mind now, seems to me beyond dispute, that I have at last, bored down into my oil well, & can't scribble fast enough to bring it all to the surface... I ha
With an introduction by Margo Jefferson Thursday 28 May 1931. On Whit Monday the sun blazed, making the grass semi-transparent. And space & leisure seemed to lie all about; & I said, not once in an exstasy, but frequently & soberly, This is happiness. Why
With an introduction by Siri Hustvedt Friday 30 October 1936. I do not wish, for reasons I cannot now develop, to analyse that extraordinary summer. It will be more helpful & healthy for me to write scenes; to take up my pen & describe actual events: good