Szerző Virginia Woolf
A férfiból nővé váló, közel négyszáz évet megélő Orlando a világirodalom egyik legkülönlegesebb alakja. Virginia Woolf hőse Erzsébet királynő korától a modernitás hajnaláig terjedő földi pályafutása során mindvégig az élet teljességét keresve pergeti…
Vannak olyan alkotások, amelyek a születésük óta eltelt idővel nemhogy nem veszítenek aktualitásukból, hanem csak még időszerűbbé válnak. A Saját szoba is ilyen. Egyszerre késztet elgondolkodtatásra a múlttal, a jelennel és a jövővel kapcsolatban is,…
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) a modern angol próza, a lélektani regény, a tudatfolyam-technika egyik megteremtője és legnagyobb hatású művelője. Ő alapította a Bloomsbury-kör nevű irodalmi csoportot, amelyben a XX. század első felének legjelesebb angol…
Virginia Woolf kisregényében képzelet és valóság keveredik: elbűvölő mese egy nemes cocker spánielről, aki 1842-ben látja meg a napvilágot, majd a betegeskedő költőnő, Elizabeth Barrett házába és szellemi körébe kerül. Kutyatolvajok ellopják, hátborzongató…
'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York TimesTracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements…
Virginia Woolf's dazzling, time-defying novel of love, identity and transformation, brought to life with breathtaking interior art by Varvara Alay.Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other…
In a single afternoon's walk, Virginia Woolf captures the infinite life of a garden...A couple pause among the flowerbeds, their thoughts drifting apart. A woman’s mind fixes on a small, troubling mark on the wall. A chance meeting becomes an imagined…
Saving fleeting snapshots, astutely observing strangers, recording meticulous detail: modernist author Virginia Woolf knows how to capture a moment.In 'Kew Gardens' and 'An Unwritten Novel', everyday life becomes a powerful stage for dreaming and storytelling.…
'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.' - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.Set in London during the aftermath of the First World War, the elegant Clarissa Dalloway is putting the finishing touches on her house…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's great masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. Over the course of one day, as she readies…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's delightful, boundary-pushing classic, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days…
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Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading. On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway – fashionable, worldly, wealthy and an accomplished…
Celebrate a vital work of feminism with this special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press. Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them,…
Celebrate the 100th birthday of a groundbreaking novel with this very special hardback based on the first edition published by the Hogarth Press. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party.Over…
Celebrate a captivating novel with this special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press. There were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches…
‘Waking, I cry “Oh, is this your – buried treasure? The light in the heart.”’In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession;…
A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay and using powerful images and memorable thought experiments -such as a fictional sister…
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. 'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the…
'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary SupplementFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer…
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The New Dress is here accompanied by most of the short stories she published in her lifetime and six other posthumously published narratives that share the milieu and some of the characters of her celebrated novel. Together, they reveal their author…
Román Orlando (Orlando, č. 1994) z roku 1928 hrál pro autorku zcela zásadní roli, patrně je to i nejdelší milostný dopis, který kdy v literatuře vznikl, a Woolfová jej píše sobě samé. Orlando je téměř nesmrtelná bytost, na své cestě prochází dějinami…
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 leads to Rachel’s awakening, both as a…
Written in the same period as Mrs Dalloway these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the excitement, the fluctuations of mood and temper and the heightened emotions which surround these social…
Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret.…
'She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day'On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on…
