Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf published her only collection of short fiction, Monday or Tuesday, in 1919. In the book's eight exuberant, entertaining, and happily eccentric stories, Woolf anticipates themes developed in her political writings, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, and invents literary techniques perfected in her later novels, including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. A delightful introduction to one of the most influential writers of all time,...
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En La señora Dalloway Virginia Woolf relata un día en la vida de Clarissa Dalloway, una señora de la clase alta casada con un miembro del parlamento inglés, y de un ex-combatiente que lucha contra su enfermedad mental. La historia comienza y termina en Londres, en un mismo día de junio de 1923, y se desarrolla desde el momento en que Clarissa está preparando una fiesta en su mansión hasta que se retiran los invitados.
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Katharine Hilbery and Mary Dachet are two young women of marriageable age, and although both have prospects, they also have other areas of interest-Katharine is passionate about her intellectual pursuits and Mary works on a campaign for women's suffrage. Both women must learn to balance their expectations for their futures and their prospects for marriage with their own passions and happiness.
One of Virginia Woolf's lesser known, earlier novels,...
4) Jacob's Room
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Virginia Woolf's third novel, Jacob's Room (1922) differs from its two predecessors in its experimental, abstract approach to writing. Jacob Flanders' life is examined largely through the impressions and accounts of others in his life, mostly women, creating a portrait of a young man both representative of and victimized by Edwardian society. The novel coincided with Woolf's emerging interest in feminism and is critical of the righteous patriarchy...
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Una habitación propia se estableció desde su publicación como uno de los libros fundamentales del feminismo. Basado en dos conferencias pronunciadas por Virginia Woolf en colleges para mujeres y ampliado luego por la autora, el texto es un testamento visionario, donde tópicos característicos del feminismo por casi un siglo (las conferencias fueron dadas en 1928 y el libro fue publicado un año después) son expuestos con claridad tal vez por...
6) Al Faro
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Al Faro (1927) narra los recuerdos y vivencias de una familia, los Ramsay, en la isla de Skye, en las Hébridas, dos días distantes en el tiempo. La preparación de una excursión familiar al faro de la isla en momentos y situaciones muy diferentes debido al transcurso de los años es el desencadenantede una reflexión introspectiva sobre la fugacidad de la vida, la huella de los recuerdos infantiles, el desencanto y otros sentimientos que generan...
7) Orlando
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Virginia Woolf: Orlando—Geschichte eines Lebens Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert und mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung. Voll verlinkt, mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und zahlreichen Erklärungen zeittypischer Ausdrücke.
Virginia Woolf schickt ihren Helden auf einen Parforceritt durch Raum, Zeit, soziale Milieus und sogar Geschlechterrollen. Geboren im 16. Jahrhundert als Adeliger in London, verschlägt es Orlando nach Konstantinopel. Dort...
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In this early collection of eight short stories by Virginia Woolf conventional notions of plot and character are abandoned for a stream of consciousness, almost dream-like and experimental form of prose. Readers while find the relative brevity of this volume, and the stories within it, helpful in overcoming any unfamiliarity with this style of writing. Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories was first published in 1921 and includes the following stories:...
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Presented here are three of the most important feminist novels ever written: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Each of these works is an early, groundbreaking piece of fiction from some of literature's finest female writers as they explore life, love and the struggle of women to find their voices in a time where they were too often silenced and suppressed.
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Presented here is Volume II of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three more of the most important feminist novels ever written: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto and My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin.
The first book in this collection is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's experimental and brilliant third novel. This semi-autobiographical book was hailed in its time as a...
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Such an expression of unhappiness was enough by itself to make one's eyes slide above the paper's edge to the poor woman's face-insignificant without that look, almost a symbol of human destiny with it. Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of-what? That life's like that, it seems. Five faces opposite-five mature faces-and the knowledge in each face....
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"The Common Reader" is a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf, published initially in two parts in 1925 and 1935. As the title suggests, the essays are intended for the average reader and deal with a variety of literary topics presented in layman's terms. The first series deals with various authors including Geoffrey Chaucer, Jane Austen, and Joseph Conrad; together with pieces on the Greek language and the modern essay. In the second series,...
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Einer der berühmtesten Romane der englischen Literatur schildert einen einzigen Tag im Leben einer Frau – und fasst zugleich die Tiefe eines ganzen Lebens voller Leerstellen und in engen Grenzen: An einem warmen Junitag im Jahr 1923 spaziert Clarissa Dalloway über die Bond Street, um Blumen für ihre bevorstehende Abendgesellschaft zu kaufen. Die Glockenschläge von Big Ben begleiten ihren Tag, ihr Wiedersehen mit dem Jugendfreund Peter Walsh,...
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El cuarto de Jacob - Jacob's Room
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De Jacob Flanders solo se sabe lo que se deja entrever en las impresiones que los otros personajes tienen de él y sin embargo se convierte en el centro constante de una apasionante historia.
La primera novela experimental de Virginia Woolf trabaja sobre ese vacío del personaje central -una novela sin protagonista si se la aborda...
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Klassikerinnen neu entdeckt von Schriftstellerinnen der Gegenwart
Einer der berühmtesten Romane der englischen Literatur erzählt einen Tag im Leben der Clarissa Dalloway – und zugleich ein ganzes Leben voller Leerstellen und in engen Grenzen.
"›Change‹ heißen die Wechseljahre auf Englisch. Und in diesem Zeichen – change –, in dem Zeichen, sich zu verändern, verändern zu müssen, steht Clarissa Dalloway." (Ulrike Draesner)
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Warum werden eigentlich so übermäßig viele Bücher von Männern geschrieben? Geistige Freiheit hängt von materiellen Dingen ab, betont Virginia Woolf in ihrer großen Streitschrift, einem Schlüsselwerk des Feminismus. Und die hatten Frauen über Jahrhunderte nicht. Jede Frau sollte "fünfhundert Pfund im Jahr und ein eigenes Zimmer" haben. Das ist Unabhängigkeit.
Axel Monte hat den brillanten Essay übersetzt, mit den nötigen Erläuterungen...
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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...
20) Kew Gardens
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From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with spots of colour raised upon the surface; and from the red, blue or yellow gloom of the throat emerged a straight bar, rough with gold dust and slightly clubbed at the end. The petals were voluminous enough to be stirred by the summer breeze, and when they...