Virginia - Libros y biografía

A fascinating guide to a career in marine biology written by bestselling journalist Virginia Morell and based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the field—essential reading for someone considering...

From 2016 Man Booker longlisted Virginia Reeves comes a moving and riveting new novel about the head doctor of a mental institution whose marriage and job come under threat when he and a younger patient...

Um dos grandes romances de Virginia Woolf numa tradução que recupera o espírito em que foi escrito: ser leitura e divertimento.«Escrevi este livro com mais rapidez do que qualquer outro, e é uma grande...

'As gripping as any thriller' Daily MailA grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment.One of the women, Chiara Ravello, is...

Marie may be 'getting on a bit' but it's certainly not getting her down. Her family around her and a man who loves her means that life is good - but nothing stays the same for long. Marie's golden years...

Another year, another January, and Marie Sharp has written a new diary, dishing the dirt on how the cool grannies live today. And her drug cravings aren't the half of it. There's the handsome stranger...

The book that answers all the questions you hoped you’d never have to ask. Hailed as “an excellent resource” by the Family Caregiver Alliance, How to Care for Aging Parents is an indispensable source...

A partir de uma série de palestras apresentadas em 1928 a jovens universitárias sobre o tema "As mulheres e a ficção", Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) desenvolve as reflexões que dariam origem a Um quarto...

"Livre sans nom" — tel est le titre même que donna dans son journal Virginia Woolf au roman-essai Les Pargiter, consacré à « la vie sexuelle des femmes ». Dans cette audacieuse entreprise, dès les années...

Mère depuis quelques heures, une femme observe son nouveau-né depuis son lit à la maternité. Comment porter sa fille, si fragile, sans la casser ? Comment vivre avec cette nouvelle charge ? Donner naissance...

Ces deux textes reflètent toutes les facettes de l’œuvre d’essayiste de Virginia Woolf. De veine très lyrique, De la lecture est tout en digressions, en chassés croisés passé-présent, lieux d’écriture...

« Derrière nous s’étend le système patriarcal avec sa nullité, son amoralité, son hypocrisie, sa servilité. Devant nous s’étendent la vie publique, le système professionnel, avec leur passivité, leur...

Derrière la pureté romanesque de Virginia, son amie Vita Sackville West pressentait le mordant, la dent acérée de Woolf, bref, tout l’esprit critique de celle qui reste la plus brillante pamphlétaire...

Embark on a haunting journey of self-discovery and transformation in Virginia Woolf's first novel, 'The Voyage Out'. Rachel Vinrace, a young woman sheltered from life's realities, is whisked away on her...

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 eponymous Mrs. Dalloway, it is much more....

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in this modern version of the mythic voyage. In one of Woolf's wittiest, most satirical novels,...

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate...

Set in pre-war England, Jacob's story starts when he is still a child, and the novel follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. Told mainly through the eyes of women in his life,...

A haunted house -- A society -- Monday or Tuesday -- An unwritten novel -- The string quartet -- Blue & green -- Kew Gardens -- The mark on the wall.

Master the art of creating your own beaded jewelry and build your stitching skills! A must-have jewelry making guide to craft your own stunning statement pieces, Best of Two-Hole Bead Stitching features...

En choisissant en 1952 de donner une nouvelle traduction du premier roman de Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out, le grand poète et traducteur Armel Guerne (à qui l'on doit aussi une magistrale version française...

Comment saisir la vérité d'un être? Jacob Flanders n’est-il pas à la fois cet enfant innocent qui joue sur une plage de Cornouailles, le brillant étudiant de Cambridge, le jeune homme séduisant, entouré...

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)"« Dans ces conditions, bien entendu, écrivait Betty Flanders, enfouissant de plus en plus ses talons dans le sable, il n’y avait pas autre chose à faire que de partir. »Lentement...

'Je revois clairement cette libellule et la chaussure de Lily avec sur le bout une boucle d’argent carrée. Tout le temps que je parlais, je regardais le bout de son soulier et quand il s’agitait avec...

Le temps, Virginia Woolf n'a pas d'autre sujet. Les années passent, de 1880 à 1918 et au temps présent, dans ce roman de 1937. Il raconte l'histoire d'une famille en trois générations, où tout change,...

Book two of the fast-paced, urban fantasy parody series. When Victoria Marmot helps rescue her brother from a corrupt magical government she also unleashes a cadre unsavory characters, a handful of helpless...

Book three of the fast-paced, humorous, urban fantasy series.Vic is about to die. At best, she'll die when the Ministry of Magical Entities finally puts on their sham of a trial and convicts her of a...

Book one in this fast-paced, urban-fantasy parody series.Victoria Marmot is just an average teenage girl... if by "average" you mean an orphaned, multi-lingual, martial arts expert who owns her own home...

Betrayal of mind. Betrayal of power. Betrayal of heart. For centuries the Rōjū council silenced all who opposed them, spreading lies and killing innocents, ensuring female Kisōshi were little more than...

Two friends. Two forbidden powers. One chance to change everything. When Mishi is taken from her orphanage home, fears she'll never see her best friend again. And when Taka is taken to the infamous Josankō...