Knihy od: Woolf, V.

Nouvelle édition ? destination des classes préparatoires scientifiques. Cette édition de Mrs Dalloway comporte un appareil critique inédit, éclairant l'oeuvre ? la lumi?re du th?me au programme 2013-2014, « Le temps vécu ».

´I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn´t resist making him a Life.´ Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both directly and metaphorically. She started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning´s...

Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf´s own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine´s case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf´s, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break away from the demands of the previous generation...

As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the `present day´ of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, the social strictures of patriarchy, capitalism and Empire, and the rise of Fascism. Engaging with...

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through...

´I shall never forget the day I wrote The Mark on the Wall - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. The Unwritten Novel was the great discovery, however. That - again in one second - showed me how I could embody all...

'Fear no more the heat of the sun.' Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren...

Taking family, friends and servants as her subjects, Virginia Woolf here presents a series of impressions of the people around her. And as she describes their lives - including an in-depth piece on her nephew Julian Bell, and sketches on Bloomsbury figures Lady Ottoline Morrell and Lady Strachey - she...

In A Room of One´s Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One´s Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a...

´I am making up To the Lighthouse - the sea is to be heard all through it´ Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and their summer...

Woolf described this work on the title-page of the first draft as `the life of anybody'. The Waves (1931) traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an exploratory and sensuous narrative. The Waves was conceived, brooded on, and written during a highly political phase in Woolf's career, when...

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a grand party that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are in the past, and she remembers the time when she was as young as...

Jacob´s Room is Virgina Woolf´s first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob´s life is traced from childhood, life at Cambridge University to his early adult life in artistic...

Imja anglijskoj pisatelnitsy V.Vulf, avtora shiroko izvestnyh romanov

The action in this novel is restricted to the events of one day in central London, punctuated by the chimes of Big Ben. It is a richly-textured impression of the cross-currents of sophisticated social life.