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Virginia Woolf
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
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This handsome gift edition presents Virginia Woolf's classic work, A Room of One's Own, featuring a luxurious gold embossed cover design, gilded page edges and patterned endpapers.
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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…
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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…
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This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction.
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To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness.
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Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth.
Gives readers a taste of the Classics’ huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts…
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…
Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness modernist masterpiece.
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‘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…
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…
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.
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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…
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"Orlando: A Biography features a nobleman named Orlando who lives over three centuries, beginning in the Elizabethan era and ending in the twentieth century, and, remarkably, changes from man to…
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…
‘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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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…
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…
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…
Flush is a genre-defying blend of biography and fantasy, and an accessible yet stylistically innovative jeu d'esprit.
Written in 1924 and perhaps intended for inclusion in Mrs Dalloway, a book Woolf was working on at the time, 'The New Dress' is here accompanied by most of the…
Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman, with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.
Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel…
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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…
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Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.
Julia Briggs
The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf’s writings is at the heart of this book as Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf’s work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments…
Young Orlando is a sixteen-year-old English noblemen during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Around the age of thirty, he undergoes a mysterious sex change and lives on for another…
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First published in 1928, "Orlando: A Biography" is Virginia Woolf's sixth novel. Inspired by the life of Woolf's friend and sometimes lover, Vita Sackville-West, the novel chronicles the several century…
Mrs. Dalloway is Virginia Woolf's best known novel. This landmark novel is a masterpiece. While the book seems to take place in a single day in the life of the…
Virginia Woolf’s seductive, provocative masterpiece is a whirlwind adventure through time, gender and identity. Introduced by Tilda Swinton
Discover the most popular of Woolf’s books during her lifetime - a powerful portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century. The Years follows the…
New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists
Anne Reus
The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography.
Hilary Newman
Hilary Newman traces Virginia Woolf's examination of the Brontes across a wide variety of genres: juvenilia, novels, essays, feminist polemics, diaries, and letters. This book adopts a Woolfian approach to…
Benjamin D. Hagen
Lawrence reframes Woolf and Lawrence's later experimentsin fiction, life-writing, and literary criticism as the works of formerteachers, of writers (that is) still preoccupied with pedagogy.
Perry Meisel
The Politics of Form rejects claims that the legacy of high theory has been superseded by New Historicism, post-colonial criticism, gender studies, environmental criticism, and archive studies by demonstrating that…
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on October 11, 1928. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's…
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Illustrated Edition: Featuring 15 compelling illustrations that enhance the reader's experience, breathing visual life into Woolf's profound narrative. Summary Included: A concise and captivating summary provides a quick glimpse into…
Once called, "the longest and most charming love letter in literature," Orlando: A Biography (1928) is a semi-biographical novel by Virginia Woolf.
Inspired by a three-year long affair with Vita…
A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman. With a new introduction by Jeanette…
‘To the Lighthouse’ was Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years…
Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of…