To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel...

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge...

Set in the halcyon days of pre-World War I innocence, Virginia Woolf's third novel follows the progress of a young man as he moves from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. Wandering through the windswept shores of...

"Wo sollen wir anfangen? Wie sollen wir Ordnung in dieses vielgestaltige Chaos bringen und so die tiefste und breiteste Freude an dem bekommen, was wir lesen?" Virginia Woolfs kurzer, leidenschaftlicher Essay How Should One Read a Book?,...

In Virginia Woolf's lyrical, inventive last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England on the eve of World War II. "Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life." Between...

"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...

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.Part of the Macmillan...

The Essays Of Virginia Woolf: Volume II: 1912-1918

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...

"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...

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...