Virginia: 1900 books

About the Book Today, with so many forms and styles of modem poetry, it is refreshing sometimes to read the simple rhymes that one can understand without some kind of degree in reading poetry. The poems between the covers of this book come from the very heart of the writer and describes so many feelings...

In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war. Italy’s Republic was born of World War II, its constitution defined by anti-Fascism, its parties self-identified with national Resistance. Because of their importance to the nation’s identity, the...

This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important...

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Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character...

CONTENTS:1. A Haunted House 2. A Society 3. Monday or Tuesday 4. An Unwritten Novel 5. The String Quartet 6. Blue & Green 7. Kew Gardens 8. The Mark on the Wall

'The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it...

This eBook edition of "The Waves & To the Lighthouse" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "To the Lighthouse" – The Ramsey family arrives to their summer house in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Sky in Scotland. They...

Everybody who wants to become a professional writer always looks for the success of their stories and for being read by the most possible readers. The best way to achieve it is to turn to the greatest authors of all times. This compilation of essays, signed by four well-known English and American writers,...

Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student at Cambridge, his elusive, chameleon-like character is gradually revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents and impressions:...

In Woolf's final novel, villagers present their annual pageant, made up of scenes from the history of England, at a house in the heart of the country as personal dramas simmer and World War II looms.   Annotated and with an introduction by Melba Cuddy-Keane

Published by Hogarth in 1921, Monday or Tuesday is a collection of eight short stories. The set includes the title piece, Monday or Tuesday, which, along with Blue and Green, and, to a lesser extent, A Haunted House, suggest themselves as literary pastiches, closer to impressionism than conventional,...

Common Sense is Not Always Common Practice as Ben Kingsley 's story shows. This book is your ultimate resource for Ben Kingsley. Here you will find the most up-to-date 222 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know...

Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one’s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon.