Virginia Woolfová

Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by …

Orlando je román britské spisovatelky Virginie Woolfové, poprvé vydaný roku 1928. Česky vyšel v překladu Kateřiny Hilské.

Paní Dallowayová je impresionistický román britské autorky Virginie Woolfové, na němž pracovala v letech 1923-1925. Je považován za její vrcholné a rovněž nejznámější dílo, které inspirovalo také amerického spisovatele Michaela Cunninghama k napsání světoznámého románu Hodiny, podle kterého byl natočen i stejnojmenný …

Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it …

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator …

The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the genteel Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in scope, focusing instead on the small private details of the characters' …

Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. …

Three Guineas is a book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, published in June 1938.