Virginia Woolf

Una cambra pròpia és un ampli assaig de l'escriptora Virginia Woolf publicat per primera vegada el 24 d'octubre de 1929, en un recull de les conferències dictades a Newnham College i al Girton College, dues escoles universitàries per a dones a la Universitat de Cambridge amb el títol de “Dones i ficció”. L'obra ha …

In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the …

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister," the novel …

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 …

Una cambra pròpia és un ampli assaig de l'escriptora Virginia Woolf publicat per primera vegada el 24 d'octubre de 1929, en un recull de les conferències dictades a Newnham College i al Girton College, dues escoles universitàries per a dones a la Universitat de Cambridge amb el títol de “Dones i ficció”. L'obra ha …

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.