In "Flush" erleben wir die Liebesgeschichte zweier berühmter Dichter, Elizabeth Barrett und Robert Browning, mit den Augen eines Hundes. Flush, Elizabeths treues Haustier, erlebt viele Abenteuer. Er muss die Auswirkungen von Eifersucht,...

Im Juni des Jahres 1923 bereitet Clarissa Dalloway, die Ehefrau eines britischen Parlamentsabgeordneten, eine große Abendgesellschaft in ihrem Haus in London vor. Der unerwartete Besuch von Peter Walsh, den sie seit der Ablehnung seines...

Romane: Mrs. Dalloway /Die Fahrt zum Leuchtturm /Orlando /Die Wellen /Zwischen den Akten

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.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket...

»Ein Dialog der Seele mit der Seele« (Virginia Woolf über ihre Tagebücher) Zur Erholung von ihrer schriftstellerischen Arbeit notierte Virginia Woolf fast täglich rasch und spontan, was ihr durch den Kopf ging. So entstand das...

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is recognized as a major twentieth-century author and was a central figure in the Bloomsbury group. Her most famous novels include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves and Orlando. She drowned herself in...

Virginia Woolf hielt 1931 eine Rede vor berufstätigen Frauen, die unter dem Titel ›Professions for Women‹ in die Geschichte einging. Sie erzählt darin nicht nur von den Extravaganzen, die sie sich von ihrem ersten Lohn leistete. Vor...

"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...

One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not...

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH 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...

"Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth...

Woolf¿s textured prose invites us into each of the characters¿ minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the lighthouse.Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye,...