Virginia Woolf

A Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf egyik legismertebb regénye. Először 1925-ben jelent meg angolul, magyar nyelven pedig 1971-ben, Tandori Dezső fordításában. A könyv népszerűségét jelzi, hogy szerepel azon a listán, ami az 1001, jelenleg legjelentősebbnek tartott könyvet tartalmazza. A regény egy középkorú asszony egy …

A világítótorony Virginia Woolf egy regénye. Az 'érett modernizmus' egyik irányadó műve. Középpontjában a Ramsay család áll és látogatásaik a Skócia északnyugati partja közelében található Skye szigetre, 1910 és 1920 között. A világítótorony követi és kiterjeszti a modernista regényírók – mint Marcel Proust és James …

The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice. The soliloquies …

The story of a man’s life from a day in his childhood to the day of his death. “Jacob’s Room...comes as a tremendous surprise. The impossible has occurred. The style closely resembles that of Kew Gardens....The break with Night and Day and even with The Voyage Out is complete. A new type of fiction has swum into view” …

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South american coast. “It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South americanca not found on any map and reached by a boat which would …

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning’s life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.

MOMENTS OF BEING is a collection containing Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. The author was well born, and in "Reminiscenses," the first of five pieces, she focuses on the death of her mother, "the greatest disaster that could happen," and its effect on her father, the demanding Victorian patriarch. "A …

A világítótorony Virginia Woolf regénye. Az 'érett modernizmus' irányadó műve. Középpontjában a Ramsay család áll és látogatásaik a Skócia északnyugati partja közelében található Skye szigetre, 1910 és 1920 között. A világítótorony követi és kiterjeszti a modernista regényírók – mint Marcel Proust és James Joyce - …

A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together. The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921 : "A …