Virginia Woolf: 358 books

Nei due saggi inediti pubblicati in questo volume, Virginia Woolf ci invita a fare “una passeggiata intorno” alle qualità delle immagini cinematografiche e delle parole. Entrambe sono in grado di mettere in moto quel processo creativo attraverso la cui contemplazione si esperisce il mondo,lo...

Bisogna tornare a camminare, ci dice Thoreau in questo piccolo saggio. Ma è l'Arte del camminare quella che con ardore appassionato chiede di coltivare, e avendo in mente ben precisi effetti. Anche in "Walking", infatti, l'autore di "Walden" e di "Disobbedienza civile"...

With the first volume published in 1925 and the second in 1932, The Common Reader brings together a collection of Woolf's critical essays and articles, in total forty entries covering historical and contemporary authors and themes. By no means is this a complete collection of her critical work – she...

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...

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,...

Published by Hogarth Press in 1928, Orlando is at once an oddity, an indulgence, but also a slice of genius. The novel – because despite masquerading as a biography, it is a work of narrative fiction – tells the unlikely, impossible story of Orlando through his years as a male member of the Elizabethan...

Published in 1937 by Hogarth Press, The Years was the last novel released during Woolf’s lifetime. It was also the longest in development, having gone through a steady flow of refinements since it was first conceived as a novel-essay in 1931. Much like the previous novel, The Waves, this is as much...

A modernist consideration of city life seen through the eyes of a dog named Flush. Most insightful and experimental are Woolf's emotional and philosophical views verbalised in Flush's thoughts. For Flush smell is poetry, but for Barrett Browning, poetry is impossible without words. In Flush Woolf examines...

A selection of twenty-nine essays. "Woolf's]essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating.... Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint...

›Die Wellen‹, Virginia Woolfs sechster Roman, wurde 1931 veröffentlicht. Es ist das originellste und tiefgründigste all ihrer Bücher, vielleicht ein Meisterwerk, ein "Klassiker" (E. M. Forster). "Die Wellen", schrieb Stephen Spender, "das mir als größtes Werk Virginia...

«Negli anni che vanno dal 1896 al 1912, Virginia, che è nata nel 1882, è prima un’adolescente, sviluppa poi in una giovane ragazza e nel 1912 infine diventa una donna vivace, allegra, divertita, a volte annoiata, per lo più manifestamente eccitata, travolgente nella sua ironia, e spiritosa,...

Woolf's first distinctly modernist novel follows an aloof yet beloved young man from his childhood through his student days to his too-early death during World War I. Annotated and with an introduction by Vara Neverow

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...

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:...