Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist, essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Her family and friends were writers and artists and they later became known as...

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Woolf responds passionately to those writers - past, present - who deal honestly with the reader, who express their own variations on the 'I am I' - the selective vision of the finite self. von Woolf, Virginia

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...

Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf, geboren 1882 in London, schrieb zeitlebens gegen die gesellschaftliche Unterdrückung von Frauen an; ihr Essay "A Room of One's Own" ist ein feministischer...

Kaum hatte Virginia Woolf im Oktober 1924 das Manuskript zu Mrs Dalloway abgeschlossen, da sah sie bereits den »Alten Mann« vor sich, den Mr Ramsay aus Zum LeuchtturmMrs Dallossay steht im Mittelpunkt dieses Romans eine Frau, die sehr...

Readers of Virginia Woolf will enjoy this compilation of short stories, ordered chronologically to highlight Woolf's different creative periods. Woolf continually used stories and sketches to experiment with narrative models and themes...

"A Writer's Diary: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition" ist eine Sammlung von Tagebucheinträgen der berühmten britischen Schriftstellerin Virginia Woolf. Die Einträge wurden von ihrem Ehemann Leonard Woolf ausgewählt und bieten...

'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...

This charming short story by one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf, is set on a hot July day in Kew Gardens. In this new edition published by Kew, delightful illustrations accompany the text in this...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access...

"There were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark." To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of the Ramsay family living in a summer house off the rocky coast...