Woolf - Libros y biografía

Working long hours in a New York City bakery is not at all what Sophia Hayes had planned for her life. When her fiancé breaks their engagement her to marry her thinner, blonder, more beautiful sister,...

U.S. Marshal Joshua Egan has a vengeance on his mind when he marries an unclaimed mail order bride to care for his motherless children. A gang of outlaws murdered his dear wife during a stagecoach robbery...

Annie Markum grew up with a bible in one hand, and a disapproving father holding the other. At twenty-two, she dared to dream of a different life and risked everything to become a mail order bride. One...

Duncan McKenzie has been promising his wife, Catherine, a honeymoon. When a mysterious letter forces Duncan to make a trip to Chicago, he decides to combine a honeymoon with the trip. He doesn't tell...

When her parents died, Molly McGregor did what she needed to survive in New York City all alone. She took a job for a well respected banker, but made a discovery that put her life in danger. Now in 1882...

All three Destiny in Deadwood books in one great volume. JAKE – He's on the run for killing his fiancée's murderer, he heads to Deadwood with his brothers. Can he overcome his grief and find love in this rough...

Julia O'Brien is a practical woman. A nurse and midwife, she was perhaps the most surprised when she fell in love with Dr. Matthew Reynolds and agreed to be his mail order bride. She sets off for Tombstone...

Carter Monroe woke on a normal day or so he thought. Then he found a baby in a basket on his front porch with a note stating he was the father. That was impossible and yet the baby's mama had been sure....

New York Governess Victoria Coleman survives an attack but finds herself in a family way. When her employer finds out, the kind man tells her she is safe there. But his wife has other ideas. Believing...

Cordelia Jameson is left alone after her brother's death. He left her with $5000 which she knows won't last forever and she doesn't want to be alone. She wants a husband and children. She decides to become...

A warehouse fire in Lawrence, Massachusetts has taken Genevieve "Genny" Copeland's livelihood, but opened a new opportunity for her. If she takes the chance, she could have the family she's always dreamed...

Nellie Wallace is a young widow with two children. In post civil-war New York, the men are scarce and none want the burden of a wife with children. Her dead husband's family is wealthy, and cruel. Desperate...

Douglas Latimer lost his wife and his best friend under suspicious circumstances in a gold mine explosion. Left with a new baby and a broken heart, Douglas meets his best friend's mail-order bride intending...

As the local preacher, Gideon Fraser often talks about the many virtues of a good marriage, but that doesn't mean he has the slightest inclination of claiming a bride of his own. No, he's been burned...

Amelia James grew up performing on the stage. Her stunning voice made her the darling of New York's theater district since she was fifteen. She's never been more than an asset to her mother, never been...

If Jared Winslow didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any. Forced to leave his home in Chicago or face the hangman's noose, he's supposed to lay low and stay out of trouble. He's not supposed to become...

For it is vain and foolish to talk of Knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought...

Betty Flanders, veuve, trois enfants, Archer, le second Jacob, le dernier au berceau. Virginia Woolf écrit la vie de Jacob par petites touches légères successives, comme pour une aquarelle. Les portraits...

Die Geschichte Orlandos, eines schönen Jünglings aus adligem Haus, der als Frau Karriere macht. Von Königin Elisabeth I. wird er zum Schatz- und Hofmeister ernannt. Sie verliebt sich gar in ihn, während...

Ein autobiographischer Roman, der sich um die Geschichte der Stephen-Familie dreht. Mrs Ramsay will ihrem Sohn James zum Leuchtturm fahren. Doch es soll regnen und so kommt der Ausflug nicht zustande....

La Première Guerre mondiale est au cœur de ce grand roman expérimental de Virginia Woolf. L’action se situe pourtant principalement dans l’Angleterre d’avant 1914. Mais Jacob Flanders, jeune homme dilettante...

Des vacances sur une île en Écosse. Un enfant rêvant d’aller au phare. Sa mère, Mrs Ramsay, objet de l’admiration de tous. Une expédition au phare dix ans après. La guerre qui entre-temps a créé un vide...

When the pack leader's son rejects our bond and exiles me, I'm convinced things can't get any worse. After I'm thrust into the center of a cataclysm spanning two realms, I quickly discover how wrong I...

Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage,...

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with...

It was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouring out tea. Perhaps a fifth part of her mind was thus occupied, and the remaining...

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers' clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud;...

Pour Virginia Woolf, les livres doivent tenir tout seuls sur leurs pieds : ils n’ont besoin d’aucune exégèse pour être appréciés par leurs lecteurs. C’est vrai mais cela ne l’a pas empêchée – pour notre...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her father’s ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South...

A party of English people are headed for South America on a boat. One of them is 24-year-old Rachel Vinrace, a naïve and sheltered young woman. Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who sets...