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Virginia Woolf
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…
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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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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…
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…
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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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‘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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This is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father’s ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a…
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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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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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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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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…
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.
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…
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…
‘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…
"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…
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…
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…
"Jacob's Room" by Virginia Woolf epitomizes modernist literature, employing stream of consciousness and experimental techniques to delve into the complexities of identity, perception, and memory. Through Woolf's masterful character study…
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…
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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…
The story opens with a simple disagreement over a trip to the lighthouse. As the characters navigate their inner worlds, the novel shifts through time, revealing the profound impact 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…
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.
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…
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?
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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.
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.
Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth.
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…
