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A Room of One's Own
In ihrem berühmten, fiktiven Essay "A Room of One's Own" beschreibt Virginia Woolf, was es braucht, um schöpferisch tätig zu sein: Freiraum zur Entfaltung, Spielraum für Gedanken und einen Rückzugsort: ein Zimmer für sich allein. Außerdem wirtschaftliche Unabhängigkeit. Jahrhundertelang hatten Frauen nichts von alldem. Die Fragen, die die Autorin aufwirft, haben bis heute nichts an Aktualität eingebüßt.
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To the Lighthouse
Set on an island off the Scottish coast, To the Lighthouse minutely examines the fleeting impressions of a large cast of family, friends, lovers, and hangers-on. Who can we be, Virginia Woolf invites us to ask, if no one can ever know our hearts-if they're unknowable even to ourselves? To the Lighthouse remains one of the most important Modernist novels, exquisitely composed by one of the most gifted writers of the Modernist movement.The opening section follows the passage of a day with a thwarted objective: to go to the nearby lighthouse. The concluding section revisits this expedition a decade later, when so much is irrevocably changed, as a chance to glimpse interpersonal understandings and connections. The novel provides a brilliant example of stream-of-consciousness writing, and raises questions that provoke us still: questions about whether children are the fullest realization of one's posterity, how women artists are regarded socially, and how money and status enable-or close off-networks, relationships, and the dreams we hold most dear.As masterful as its technique is, however, the lasting value of this novel for twenty-first-century readers may be its sharp representation of the emotional labor that people-particularly women-perform in order to manage the needs and expectations of others. Woolf wrote in an age when women's participation in society was tightly restricted by class norms and stultifying domesticity. Nearly a century later, scholars still have a great deal to say about Mrs. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, and the tension between Mr. Ramsay and his son James.Woolf's fifth novel, and one of her most successful books both critically and commercially, To the Lighthouse was originally published in 1927, simultaneously in England and the United States. Due to a quirk in the management and correction of the proofs, according to scholar Hans Walter Gabler, the two editions were "not identical, since in a significant number of instances Virginia Woolf marked up the first proofs differently" for her two publishers. The Standard Ebooks edition is based primarily on the Hogarth UK edition.
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Night and Day
Although known for her later experiments with style and structure, Virginia Woolf set out in her early novels to master the traditional form. Her second novel, Night and Day, presents itself as a seemingly conventional marriage plot, complete with love triangles, broken engagements, and unrequited affections. Beneath these conventional trappings, however, the book's deeper concerns are resolutely subversive. The main characters-a quartet of friends and would-be lovers-come together, pull apart, and struggle to reconcile socially-prescribed norms of love and marriage with their own beliefs and ambitions.
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To the Lighthouse
A summer house on the Isle of Skye, a postponed trip to a lighthouse overshadowed by the looming war: in what is arguably her most personal novel, which the author herself considered her best work, Virginia Woolf draws us into the streams of consciousness of the Ramsay family and their guests. In doing so, she not only addresses themes of connection, grief and tyranny, but also creates an impressionistic memorial to her own youth and family.'Das Beste, was Virginia Woolf je geschrieben hat.' The New York Times- Englischsprachige Ausgabe- Hochwertig ausgestattetes Taschenbuch- Mit einem persönlichen deutschsprachigen Nachwort von Eva PramschüferSprachen: Deutsch, Englisch
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Mrs. Dalloway
A single June day in post-war London 1923: Elegant Clarissa Dalloway prepares an evening party, reminiscing about those she once loved. In another part of the city, shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith battles madness. As her party reaches its glittering climax, Woolf subtly intertwines their fates. In this masterful novel perfecting the interior monologue, she fuses past, present, and future.- Englischsprachige Ausgabe- Klein, praktisch, günstig: Ideal für unterwegs- Mit einer englischen Biographie der Autorin
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Mrs. Dalloway
Probably Virginia Woolf's best-known novel, Mrs. Dalloway, originally published in 1925, is a glorious, ground-breaking text. On the surface, it follows Clarissa Dalloway, an Englishwoman in her fifties, minute by minute through the June day on which she is having a party. At a deeper level, however, the novel demonstrates, through an effortless stream of consciousness, the connections formed in human interaction-whether these interactions are fleeting, or persist through decades.This is a novel to read and cherish, if only to marvel at Woolf's linguistic acrobatics. Words and phrases swoop and soar like swallows. Woolf's sentences are magnificent: sinuous, whirling, impeccably detailed. As narrative perspective shifts from character to character-sometimes within a single sentence-readers come to understand the oh-so-permeable barrier between self and other. Through Clarissa we meet Septimus Warren Smith, his wife Rezia, and a cast of dozens more, all connected by the "leaden circles" of Big Ben marking the passage of every hour, by the pavements of Bloomsbury that lead everywhere and nowhere. Modernist London has never been portrayed more sublimely: replete with birdsong and flowers, resplendent in sunshine, youthful yet eternal-and even in the aftermath of war and pandemic, resilient.Mrs. Dalloway is Woolf's attempt to express that which may be inexpressible. It offers a close examination of how difficult it is, even when our hearts are brimming, to say what we really feel; and it examines the damage we inflict through our reticence with words, our withholding of love. It is a novel of the soul, and a work of immense beauty.
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The Voyage Out
Miss Rachel Vinrace, aged twenty-four and previously interested only in music, is on a voyage both literal and metaphorical. An ocean cruise with her father leaves her for the summer at her Aunt's villa in an unnamed South American country, where she meets the English inhabitants of the local town's hotel. As the season progresses she starts to become entangled in their own lives and passions, and through those burgeoning acquaintances and friendships the discovery of her own nature grows.The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's first novel and was a labour of love, taking her five years to complete. Even though heavy editing was required to reduce some of the more politically charged themes before its publication in 1915, it still bemused some contemporary critics and even garnered accusations of "reckless femininity." Time however has proved kinder, with the book demonstrating the key points of Woolf's future style. It even has the first appearance of Clarissa Dalloway, the titular protagonist of Woolf's later and more famous novel Mrs. Dalloway.
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Mrs. Dalloway. A Novel
How do you narrate life? In this vivid portrait of a summer day in the life of a London woman, Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for an evening party initiate a unique stream of thoughts and memories. Accompanied by the chimes of Westminster's Big Ben, the interference of inner and outer voices allows us to experience the world of Clarissa in its rich plurality. Poetic, full of irony and audacity, Virginia Woolf explains how our memories and surroundings affect our reality and thus turns the conventional novel of her time upside down.Including an undiscovered foreword by Virginia Woolf.- Englischsprachige Ausgabe- Hochwertig ausgestattetes Taschenbuch- Mit einem unentdeckten Vorwort von Virginia Woolf- Mit einem persönlichen deutschsprachigen Nachwort von Anne Sauer- 'Hundert Jahre, nachdem Virginia Woolf ihren vierten Roman Mrs. Dalloway im Eigenverlag veröffentlicht hat, lese ich ihn also. Eine Frau Mitte dreißig mit entsprechend geformtem Hirn und gewachsenem Herzen, mit eigenen Erfahrungen und Erwartungen, die sich durch einen so bahnbrechenden Text wühlt und fühlt, die ihn heute ganz neu entdecken darf.' Anne SauerSprachen: Deutsch, Englisch
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Mrs Dalloway
London 1923. Der Erste Weltkrieg ist seit fünf Jahren vorbei, aber seine Auswirkungen sind immer noch in der Metropole zu spüren. Eine Berühmtheit und Ehefrau eines Politikers bereitet sich auf eine ihrer berühmten Parties vor, während an einem anderen Ort in der Stadt ein alter Freund über den Schmerz vergangener und aktueller Liebe nachgrübelt, ein Kriegsveteran mit seinen inneren Dämonen kämpft und andere Charaktere die Unsicherheit und das Drama der englischen Nachkriegsgesellschaft durchleben. Doch alle hängen auf irgendeine Weise miteinander zusammen, direkt oder über Umwege, in Virgina Woolfes bahnbrechendem Porträt eines Tages im Leben von Clarissa Dalloway.
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A Society & Kew Gardens
Level 600 Reader (L+) (CEFR B1)€ 13,95 -
Penguin Readers Level 7: Mrs Dalloway (ELT Graded Reader)
Abridged EditionVirginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
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A Room of One's Own Ein Zimmer für sich allein
Virginia Woolfs Klassiker der feministischen Literatur >A Room of One's Own. Ein Zimmer für sich allein< entstand aus zwei 1928 vor Studentinnen in Cambridge gehaltenen Vorträgen und gehört seit Erscheinen zu einem der wichtigsten feminstischen Texte - und seine Forderungen nach Freiheitsräumen sind noch immer aktuell. In dieser zweisprachigen Ausgabe können Leser*innen nun die rhetorische Brillanz, Poetik und Provokanz von einer der bedeutendsten Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Original und Übersetzung nachvollziehen. dtv zweisprachig - Die Vielfalt der Sprachen auf einen Blick Die Reihe umfasst drei Sprach-Niveaus - Einsteiger, Fortgeschrittene und Könner - und mittlerweile über 130 Titel in vielen Sprachen. Landeskunde, Kulturgeschichte und Redewendungen, zeitgenössische und klassische Texte in unterschiedlichen Formen und Genres - von der Kurzgeschichte bis zum Krimi - für jeden Lesegeschmack ist etwas dabei. Einzigartig ist die konsequente Zeilengleichheit zwischen Originaltext und Übersetzung, damit man vom ersten bis zum letzten Wort in zwei Sprachwelten zuhause ist.
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