Virginia Woolf

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 …

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 …

Doamna Dalloway este un film regizat de Marleen Gorris și a apărut în 1998. Filmul este o adaptare de Eileen Atkins după romanul Doamna Dalloway de Virginia Woolf. În film se urmărește o parte din viața Clarissei Dalloway, și momentele în care ea ia deciziile cele mai importante din viața ei. Un alt fir epic urmărește …

Între acte este ultimul roman al Virginiei Woolf, apărut în 1941, la puțin timp după sinuciderea autoarei. Woolf descrie în acest roman acțiunea unei zile de vară, din 1939, înainte de începerea celui de-al doilea război mondial, când locuitorii unui mic orășel de câmpie, împreună cu câțiva turiști veniți de la …

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.