Woolf - Libros y biografía

Monday or Tuesday was written in October 1920 and first appeared in Monday or Tuesday (1921) – a collection of experimental short prose pieces Virginia Woolf had written between 1917 and 1921. It included...

A collection of 8 short stories: A Haunted House; A Society; Monday or Tuesday; An Unwritten Novel; The String Quartet; Blue & Green; Kew Gardens; and, The Mark on the Wall.

“È un lavoro che non mi dà pace”: Virginia Woolf usava queste parole per parlare de La crociera. Fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1913 e, contrariamente a quanto si crede, questo romanzo - che segna...

The novel centres around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that...

Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge and into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's...

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...

Notte e Giorno è il secondo romanzo di Virginia Woolf. Pubblicato nel 1919, racconta - con la consueta, straordinaria capacità dell’autrice di indagare i sentimenti umani - la vita quotidiana di due amiche,...

Kew Gardens is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf. It was first published privately in 1919, then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday. Originally accompanying illustrations...

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark of high modernism, the novel centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and...

Comparso per la prima volta nel 1927, questo romanzo di Virginia Woolf ha nell'introspezione psicologica dei protagonisti il proprio punto di forza e ricalca la tradizione tipica del romanzo modernista....

The novel is set in the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. The section begins with Mrs. Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next...

"Sono una snob?" è una selezione di saggi di Virginia Woolf, in cui l’intellettuale londinese abbandona l’artificio romanzesco e ci lascia scrutare tra le pieghe della sua vita e della sua scrittura....

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation...

Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented...

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not published until 1915. It was written during a period in which Woolf was especially psychologically...

Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant...

Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine...

«Fino a quarant’anni e oltre fui ossessionata dalla presenza di mia madre... Poi un giorno, mentre attraversavo Tavistock Square, pensai al Faro: con grande, involontaria urgenza. Una cosa ne suscitava...

"Mr. Bennett e Mrs. Brown è da molti considerato il manifesto letterario programmatico di Virginia Woolf. Tematicamente legato a Modern Novels del 1919 e Modern Fiction del 1925, in realtà si tratta di...

London 1923: Eine wohlhabende Dame bereitet eine Abendgesellschaft vor. Doch sie kann sich nicht auf das Notwendige konzentrieren. Immer wieder schweifen ihre Gedanken ab. Sie verliert sich in ihren...

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created...

Woolf began work on The Voyage Out in 1910 and had finished an early draft by 1912. The novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not published until 1915. It was written during a period in which...

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;...

Jacob's Room centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although...

Neste que é seu romance mais celebrado e popular, Virginia Woolf concebeu um personagem emblemático, cuja complexidade marcou para sempre a literatura universal. Nascido no seio de uma família de boa...

Considerado como um dos principais trabalhos da escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf, "AO FAROL: TO THE LIGHTHOUSE" apresenta o cotidiano da família Ramsay e de seus amigos em sua casa de veraneio nas ilhas...

Este box reúne três clássicos de uma das maiores escritoras inglesas do século XX: Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway é considerado a obra-prima de Virginia. Publicado originalmente em 1925, o romance descreve...

Sexto romance da autora, Orlando é publicado em 1928. Marcado pela imortalidade, o protagonista idealizado por Virginia Woolf é um jovem que nasce na Inglaterra da Idade Moderna e durante uma estada na...

Els Diaris de Virginia Woolf condensats per un novel·lista. La selecció concebuda per Gonzalo Torné en mostra la completesa: el món interior s'hi revela barrejat amb els dies frenèticament high society...

Una biografia imaginativa i ben original d'un gos anomenat Flush, un cocker spaniel que és adoptat per la poetessa Elizabeth Barrett Browning i que va a viure amb ella a Londres, lluny de l'ambient rural...