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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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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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Jacob's Room
In her third novel, Virginia Woolf departs from conventional narrative and explores storytelling through discordant scenes and impressions. Jacob Flanders' life story is told through the perspectives of the people in his life.In Jacob's Room, we see Jacob grow from a young boy to an ardent student of Classical culture while the world around him moves closer to an impending war. Jacob is described in flashes by the women around him-his mother and his lovers.
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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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Flush. Una biografia
Opera unica nel suo genere, "Flush. A Biography" (1933) è un esempio lampante della sensibilità e delle capacità narrative di Virginia Woolf, che attraverso gli occhi di Flush, il cocker spaniel donato alla poetessa Elizabeth Barrett (Durham, 1806 - Firenze, 1861) nell'estate del 1842, ripercorre la travagliata vita della donna: dagli anni in cui fu costretta a letto per via della sua salute cagionevole al matrimonio segreto - contro il volere della famiglia - con Robert Browning (Camberwell, Londra, 1812 - Venezia, 1889), anch'egli celebre poeta vittoriano, fino alla fuga d'amore in Italia, dove la coppia si stabilì e diede alla luce il figlio Pen. Ma "Flush. Una biografia" è anche altro. Ispirandosi, infatti, alle lettere che i due innamorati si scambiavano - ampiamente citate nel testo - Virginia Woolf si diverte a ricostruire, tra finzione e realtà, la biografia di Flush, al quale la scrittrice ha saputo dare le movenze dei propri amatissimi cani, creando una vera biografia nella biografia.
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Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse (English Edition)€ 23,50 -
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse (English Edition)€ 10,50 -
Flush, una biografia
In "Flush", uno dei suoi romanzi forse più lineari, Virginia Woolf traccia un'intensa, sebbene inusuale, storia d'amore: quella tra Flush, un cocker spaniel e la poetessa Elizabeth Barrett Browning. La penna della Woolf segue le vicissitudini del cagnolino lungo tutto l'arco della sua vita, immancabilmente ricca sia di gioie sia di malinconie, e presenta con intelligenza e arguzia le peculiari somiglianze tra cane e padrona. Con questa biografia romanzata, a tratti leggera e a tratti pungente, l'autrice de "Le onde" e "La signora Dalloway" ci avvicina alle molteplici sfaccettature dell'animo umano. L'opera, considerata erroneamente una delle minori della Woolf, è ricca di metafore ed evidenzia in modo brillante e originale il conflitto tra classi, le condizioni di vita nelle grandi città e le caratteristiche tipiche della società inglese del diciannovesimo secolo, portando alla luce, in modo ironico e coinvolgente, le sue innumerevoli convenzioni, le ossessioni, i pregiudizi e soprattutto le tante contraddizioni. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Flush. Una biografia
Un piccolo capolavoro che racconta l'intreccio di due vite: quelle del cocker spaniel Flush e della sua padrona, la poetessa inglese Elizabeth Barrett. Nell'estate del 1842 un cucciolo di cocker spaniel di nome Flush entra al numero 50 di Wimpole Street a Londra, pronto a stravolgere la vita di Elizabeth Barrett, una delle più grandi poetesse inglesi. Tra i due scatta subito una scintilla, ma l'idillio è presto disturbato dall'arrivo di Robert Browning, poeta e futuro marito di Elizabeth. Da questo triangolo nasce la biografia scritta da Virginia Woolf che, scegliendo un punto di vista insolito, gli occhi e la percezione animale, mescola realtà e fantasia per raccontare non solo il rapporto esclusivo tra il cane e la sua padrona, intessuto di reciproca comprensione e affetto, ma una società in trasformazione, quella dell'Inghilterra ottocentesca. Dalla rigida e opprimente casa londinese, dove Elizabeth vive reclusa per motivi di salute, fino alla libertà e alla luce dell'Italia, "Flush" è un racconto raffinato e originale che intreccia la fragilità e la forza di due anime straordinarie, offrendo un ritratto unico dell'epoca vittoriana.
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Flush. Una biografia
È l'inizio dell'estate del 1842 quando Flush ¿ un cucciolo di cocker spaniel di razza purissima, manto marrone tendente all'oro, coda folta, nessun ciuffo fuori posto ¿ varca la soglia del numero 50 di Wimpole Street, a Londra, per essere regalato a una delle più grandi poetesse inglesi, la brillante e sventurata Elizabeth Barrett. Tra i due basta un'occhiata, un lampo di riconoscimento, perché nasca un'intesa. Finché, qualche tempo dopo, nella vita tranquilla di Flush entra un rivale: il poeta Robert Browning. Leggendo la corrispondenza di Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virginia Woolf rimane così colpita dalle descrizioni che la poetessa fa del suo cane da decidere di dedicargli una biografia. Mescolando realtà e finzione, guizzi di umorismo e lampi di autentica poesia, Woolf ricostruisce la vita di Flush, che diventa non solo il racconto del rapporto unico e straordinario che si crea tra un cane e il suo padrone, ma anche un vivido ritratto della società vittoriana e un'acuta riflessione sulla natura umana, vista attraverso lo sguardo di un cane. E scopriamo così che a Virginia Woolf si addice lo straniante sguardo dal basso, del cane, che dal sottosuolo dei sensi, più che dall'empireo dell'intelletto, raccoglie la materia della propria visione.
€ 17,50