Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando is her most entertaining and exciting book. The mock biography recounts the life of a sixteenth-century nobleman who ends up as a woman writer in 1920s England. Over the centuries Orlando lives through the gamut of human experience as both a man and a woman. It is an irreverent send-up of dutifully rendered biographies of great men, a tongue-in-cheek commentary on some formal innovations in Woolf's novels, and a...
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Figura destacada del llamado «Grupo de Bloomsbury», Virginia Woolf fue autora de una serie de relatos que la sitúan en la vanguardia
del movimiento renovador de las técnicas narrativas. Fue en la amalgama de sentimientos, pensamientos y emociones, que es la subjetividad,
donde Woolf encontró el material apropiado para una narrativa que contribuyó a forjar la sensibilidad contemporánea. "Escribía contra la corriente", según afirma la...
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Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device and for a demonstration of the sheer vitality of Virginia Woolf's writing, Orlando is unsurpassed. The novel is a provocative exploration of gender and history, as well as of the nature of biography itself; perhaps surprisingly, given these highly intellectual concerns,...
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Presented here is Volume III of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist novels ever written: “Orlando: A Biography” by Virginia Woolf, “O Pioneers!” by Willa Cather and “So Big” by Edna Ferber.
The first book in this collection is “Orlando: A Biography”, a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have...
6) Mrs Dalloway
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Née à Londres en 1882, Virginia Woolf est une femme de lettres reconnue pour la complexité et la modernité de son œuvre ainsi que pour son engagement pour la cause féministe. Elle commence sa carrière d'écrivain en 1905 en travaillant pour le supplément du Times et publie son premier roman La Traversée des apparences en 1915. Par leur audace et leur modernité, ses romans et ses essais séduisent autant le public que la critique. Considérée...
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Do not think, because this collection of essays is titled Volume 2, that there is anything lesser or additional to it. Here is Virginia Woolf at her most entertaining and informative, relishing the portraits and insights she presents as she surveys a varied collection of individuals in English society and English literature.
The subjects range from the Elizabethans to Thomas Hardy, and then concludes, unexpectedly, with 'How Should One Read A Book?'...
8) The Common Reader, Volume 1: 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others
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This is Virginia Woolf's first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the 'common reader' - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She read, and wrote, as an outsider: a woman set to school in her father's library, denied the educational privileges of her male siblings - and with no fixed view of what constitutes 'English literature'. What...
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In the early years of its existence, the published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper's defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars. The weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favorite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad:...
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Presented here is Volume IV of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist works ever written: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather. The first book in this collection is A Room of One's Own, a groundbreaking examination of women's roles in literary history by English author Virginia Woolf that delves into the barriers that prevented...