Virginia Woolf: 358 books

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

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.

A peculiar short story. Young woman receives asubstantial inheritance from her father, on the condition that she reads all ofthe books in London Library. Distressed by the unsatisfactory quality of theliterature itself, she shares her woes with a group of female friends. Thewomen decide that they...

In Woolf’s last novel, the action takes place on one summer’s day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.

One of the best examples of Woolf's modernist innovation, the story starts in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The narrative is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed Clara Durrant and the uninhibited...

A story of a young man named Orlando, born in England, briefly a lover to the elderly queen followed by an intense love affair with a foreign princess whose sudden departure leaves him heartbroken. Orlando resorts to writing his poem The Oak Tree, started and abandoned in his youth. He finishes the poem...

Bayan Dalloway vereceği bir parti için hazırlanırken, dışarı çiçek almaya çıkar ve geçmişe doğru bir yolculuk yapmaya başlar. Tüm hayatı bir film şeridi gibi gözlerinin önünden geçer. Ardı arkası gelmeyen hatıralar ve özlemler arasında gidip gelir. Yapmış olduğu seçimlerle...

One of Woolf’s most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.

Orlando è un libro di confine. Spazia tra la biografia romanzata, il poema e il saggio critico, miscelando generi e suggestioni. La storia è ambientata tra l'epoca elisabettiana e quella contemporanea, che il libro attraversa con ironica incisività. Il bellissimo Lord Orlando in più di tre secoli...

Cresciuta in compagnia di uno scoiattolo, una marmotta e un topo di nome Jacobi, Woolf dedicò il suo primo saggio alla morte del cane di famiglia. Non bisogna stupirsi quindi se decise di scrivere la biografia di un cocker spaniel. Infatti, mentre stava leggendo le lettere d’amore di Elizabeth...

Published posthumously by Hogarth Press shortly after Wooolf’s suicide, Between The Acts was her last novel and, strangely perhaps, closest to the first. It takes place over a day before, during and after the staging of an amateur pageant in an English village just before the onset of the Second World...

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.Mit seinen kühnen Sprüngen in die Bewusstseinsströme der Protagonisten zählt...

Virginia Woolfs subtile Gesellschaftskomödie aus viktorianischer ZeitKatharine Hilbery, wohlerzogene Tochter aus der Londoner Oberschicht, ist standesgemäß und langweilig verlobt. Doch sie erliegt der Faszination des jungen Rechtsanwalts und sozialen Aufsteigers Ralph, der sie liebt, aber seinerseits...

Orlando, um arremedo de biografia, descreve a vida do personagem homônimo, descendente de uma ancestral família aristocrática inglesa, que, no começo da narrativa, vive no século XVI, é homem e tem 16 anos. Acompanhamos sua vida por cerca de quatro séculos, na maior parte dos quais se mantém...