Virginia: 1900 books

The Eclipse of Mrs. Moon tells the story of Linda, a nine-year-old girl who is navigating the world in an emotional void until she meets Mrs. Moon, the elderly antiques dealer, who lives across the street. Both Linda and her mother, are in grave danger because Linda's mother has stolen a key from a very...

Las olas (título original en inglés, The Waves) es la séptima novela de Virginia Woolf, publicada el 8 de octubre de 1931. Es la novela más experimental de Woolf. Está formada por soliloquios de los seis personajes del libro: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny y Louis. También es importante...

Lytton Strachey fue el crítico literario por excelencia del final de la época victoriana; Virginia Woolf ya había escrito cuatro de sus grandes novelas (El cuarto de Jacob, La señora Dalloway, Orlando y Al faro); y ambos brillaban con luz propia en el muy exigente Círculo de Bloomsbury. A lo...

Is this the year to jumpstart your dreams? Take your handmade business to a truly professional level with practical advice from industry experts! Best-selling author and crafty marketeer Virginia Lindsay teaches you to sell the items you sew for a real profit. This hands-on guide to the sewing business...

You love to sew. Don't you wish you could make a living from your sewing? You can, with the help of this practical guide from professional sewist and pattern designer Virginia Lindsay. Everything you need to know to start sewing for profit is here, from finding your personal sewing style to creating...

Artista e critico d’arte, membro del Bloomsbury Group, Roger Fry è stato uno dei personaggi più influenti del panorama artistico europeo a cavallo tra Ottocento e Novecento. Fu lui a dare la definizione di “Post-impressionismo” al movimento che riuniva Cézanne, Gauguin, Munch, Van Gogh e...

BETÖRT VON EINEM HERZENSBRECHER von HEATH, VIRGINIA Es war doch nur ein unbedachter Augenblick der Schwäche! Lady Constance kann nicht fassen, dass ihr Erzfeind Aaron Wincanton ihr mit einem einzigen Kuss die Ehre geraubt hat. Auf dem Ball. Vor den Augen ihres Vaters. Die einzige Lösung? Eine Heirat....

A family of dragons who were ridiculed by their neighbors for not fitting in are put to the test after a disastrous event. An avalanche buries the residents of Purple Mountain and the clumsy dragon family must find their strength and courage to save everyone.  Purple Mountain dragon community did...

The Hunter and the Queen Series: Book I: Resurgence Book II: Transcendence Book III: Emergence (Coming Soon) Book IV: Release Date 2014 Description: Jolán and Colemund have made a pact with each other. Their solidarity is sealed within the Aegean Sea; however, a future of chaos awaits on their...

Left alone on a dark and stormy night, Matilda encounters a handsome traveler by the name of Derrick McDavern, who has the light of lust in his eyes. After having disarmed the blonde beauty, stealing the cartridges from her rifle, his plan is to seduce her until sunup. Matty struggles to resist Derrick,...

Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It is relevant to...

Virginia Thorndike, Maine's own version of Studs Terkel, traveled to all the Maine coast islands that still maintain a year-round population and persuaded the islanders to talk openly about their lives. The result is a compulsively readable, unvarnished, and appealing portrait, much of it in the islanders?...

Ruby, A 45 year old widow with four grown sons. She moves from the small town where she lived with her husband back to Cincinnati where she was raised. It's here she meets and falls in love with Elliot. Elliot, 49 years old and the CEO of Hambles, the giant manufacturing company in Cincinnati....

Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of...