Virginia Woolf: 358 books

'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...

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,...

Mrs. Dalloway introduced them, saying you will like him. The conversation began some minutes before anything was said, for both Mr. Serle and Miss Arming looked at the sky and in both of their minds the sky went on pouring its meaning though very differently, until the presence of Mr. Serle by her side...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her father’s ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South America. Despite being accompanied by her father and her aunt and uncle, Helen and Ridley Ambrose, the passage...

   Table of contents A Cosmopolite in a Cafe At Sea Aunt Kipp Little Bun Rabbit    The Ambitious Guest   The Story Of The Bad Little Boy Vanka   The Body Snatcher   The Mark On The Wall   The Affair at Coulter's Notch   A Cosmopolite in a Cafe by O. Henry     At midnight the cafe was crowded....

The novel centres around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative...

Table of contents A Baby Tramp   A Chaparral Christmas Gift   How Theseus Slays the Minotaur   A Chameleon   A Child's Dream of a Star A Country Christmas A December Day in Dixie   A Descent Into the Maelstrom   A Duel A Haunted House   A Baby Tramp by Ambrose Bierce If you had seen little...

Ich schreibe, also bin ich Schriftstellerin: Wenn es so einfach wäre, gäbe es die Geschichten in dieser Sammlung nicht. Ist Dichten das große Glück, ein großer Kraftakt - oder beides? Wie entstehen Ideen, aus welchen Situationen und Begegnungen schöpfen Autorinnen ihre Inspiration? Wie finden...

Situé dans l'Angleterre d'avant-guerre, le roman évoque d'abord l'enfance de Jacob, avant de le suivre à l'université de Cambridge, puis lors de son entrée, à l'âge adulte, dans la société anglaise de son temps. Le récit est raconté presque entièrement par les points de vue alternés de...

« Oui, bien sûr, s’il fait beau demain, dit Mrs. Ramsay. Mais il faudra vous lever à l’aurore », ajouta-t-elle. Ces paroles causèrent à son fils une joie extraordinaire. Pour lui il était désormais entendu que l’excursion...

Clarisse Dalloway, Londres, Westminster, Big Ben, dès le matin, à la mi-juin, fin de la guerre. Et la journée commence. Chaque petit fait réveille des souvenirs en elle, avec tout le fumet de l'aristocratie anglaise, dans un vagabondage léger de l'esprit. ...

Extrait du livre : « Oui, bien sûr, s’il fait beau demain, dit Mrs. Ramsay. Mais il faudra vous lever à l’aurore », ajouta-t-elle. Ces paroles causèrent à son fils une joie extraordinaire. Pour lui il était désormais...

The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob (except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective). Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily...

The attempts of a group of upper-middle-class young people to find their rightful marriage partners within the stilted conventions of courtship in Edwardian England form the substance of Night and Day. The plot, which covers a nine-month period from October to the following June, has many of the elements...