Woolf Virginia: 358 books

Zu Virginia Woolfs Lebzeiten erschien nur ein Band mit Kurzprosa, und zwar ›Montag oder Dienstag‹. Er enthielt acht Erzählungen. Bis zur Veröffentlichung des hier nun auf deutsch vorliegenden Bandes (1985 in London erschienen, in erweiterter Ausgabe 1989) waren selbst auf englisch lediglich...

"Aquários recortados na uniforme escuridão encerram regiões de imortalidade, mundos de luz solar constante onde não há chuva nem nuvens. Seus habitantes fazem, sem parar, evoluções cuja complexidade, por não ter nenhuma razão, parece ainda mais sublime. Exércitos azuis e prateados,...

"Sono una snob?" è una selezione di saggi di Virginia Woolf, in cui l’intellettuale londinese abbandona l’artificio romanzesco e ci lascia scrutare tra le pieghe della sua vita e della sua scrittura. Accanto alla Virginia su cui si è sempre posto i riflettori, accanto alle sofferenze...

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is one of her greatest literary achievements and among the most influential novels of the twentieth century. The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From...

THE WAVES is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered her most experimental work, and 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...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents Mrs Dalloway Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short...

MRS DALLOWAY (published on 14 May 1925) 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 Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was supposed to follow when writing...

Written in author Virginia Woolf’s trademark stream-of-consciousness style, Mrs. Dalloway intricately and vividly explores a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a woman of high-society London in the midst of preparations for a party. Moving through time, and from one character’s innermost...

Set in the eponymous botanic garden in London on a hot July day, the narrative gives brief glimpses of four groups of people as they pass by a flowerbed. The story begins with a description of the oval-shaped flowerbed. Woolf mixes the colors of the petals of the flowers, floating to the ground, with...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating glimpse, which display the gifts of a dazzling...

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.

Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. JACOB’S ROOM, Virginia Woolf’s third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob’s childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative...