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.
'The future shadowed their present, like the sun coming through the many-veined transparent vine leaf: a criss-cross of lines making no pattern' It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare for the annual village pageant that will be held...
'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...' At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist...
Moments of Being. "Slater's Pins Have No Points" was written in the year 1928 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic...
Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual arts, there is no accessible edition or selection of...
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English:...
Neustále sa tvorím a pretváram. Román Vlny, ktorý prvýkrát vyšiel v roku 1931, patrí medzi najvýraznejšie experimentálne texty Virginie Woolfovej. Vlny sú polyfonickou fúziou vnútorných monológov šiestich hlavných postáv Bernarda, Susan, Rhody, Louisa, Jinny...
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...
Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found `the figure of their...
První román proslulé anglické spisovatelky vyšel v roce 1915 a Woolfová na něm pracovala v době, která pro ni byla neobvykle těžká, a kdy trpěla opakujícími se depresemi. Dílo si drží tradiční románovou podobu, ale již v sobě skrývá zárodky toho, co zdobí autorčinu...