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Virginia Woolf
The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of…
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Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. In this novel, the opening section teems with the…
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A poetic novel that begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at…
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By the close, he…
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In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman’s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she…
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‘Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity’ Kate Mosse This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century.
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In the court of Queen Elizabeth I, the young nobleman Orlando begins his search for identity as he embarks on one of the greatest adventures in all of literature. An…
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Step into the world of Adeline Virginia Woolf, the celebrated English writer whose pioneering contributions to modernist literature and mastery of the stream of consciousness narrative technique have left an…
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Alexandra Harris
An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination.
In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not…
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Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By the close, he will have transformed into…
Earl G. Ingersoll
Screening Woolf examines the three film adaptations of her novels To the Lighthouse, Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway; her theorizing about film and its impact on her thinking about fiction; and her…
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In her essay, On Being Ill Virginia Woolf asks whether illness should not receive more literary attention, taking its place alongside the recurring themes of love, battle and jealousy…
Virginia Woolf's most unusual creation, Orlando is a fantastical biography as well as a funny, exuberant romp through history that examines the true nature of sexuality.
As a teenage boy…
"Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' delves into the stream-of-consciousness narratives of characters in post-World War I London, exploring time, identity, and societal expectations."
Orlando is a fantastical biography as well as a funny, exuberant romp through history that examines the true nature of sexuality.
As a teenage boy, the handsome Orlando serves as…
"Orlando: A Biography" is a novel written by Virginia Woolf and was first published in 1928. The book is a unique and imaginative work that defies easy categorization. It is…
On a single day in June 1923, Mrs. Dalloway prepares for a party, while nearby a shell-shocked war veteran abruptly loses touch with this reality.
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In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, the bustling streets of post-World War I London become a canvas for introspection. As Clarissa Dalloway
prepares for her evening party, the novel intricately weaves…
Presents one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare’s gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of…
Woolf’s textured prose invites us into each of the characters’ minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the lighthouse. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight…
The long-lived protagonist of Orlando begins as a passionate teenage aristocrat, whose days are spent in rowdy revelry at the colorful Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth and his nights in…
Orlando is a groundbreaking novel that explores themes of gender, identity, and the fluidity of time through the life of its protagonist, who transforms from a man into a woman…
‘He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others’. So Virginia Woolf described the ‘common reader’ for whom she wrote her second…
Edicion en tapa dura del ensayo que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura modernista y del feminismo, con una nueva y cuidada traduccion.
Texto senero del feminismo…
Mrs. Dalloway, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its…
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The fictional portrait of Woolf's close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, the hero Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, a dreamy and romantic youth who wakes up one…
New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists
First published in 1923 but failing to gain the same fame as her groundbreaking collection Monday or Tuesday, Woolf's short story In the Orchard is perhaps her most experimental, painting…
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Originally published in 1929, A Room of One’s Own eloquently states Woolf’s conviction that in order to create works of genius, women must be freed from financial obligations and social…
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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?
Discover Virginia Woolf’s informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon - from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond. Virginia…
A collection of short stories by the author of Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse . Often overlooked by the prominence of her novels and diaries, these short stories underline…
Virginia Woolf’s masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.
Virginia Woolf’s blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of writers and the silent fate of Shakespeare’s imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman’s need for financial independence…
This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction.
Why is it that men have always had power, influence, wealth and fame, while women have had nothing but children? In this essay, first published in 1929, Woolf exhorts young…
Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness modernist masterpiece.
Introducing 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…
Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as…
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…
