Results for 'virginia woolf'

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  1. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
    1. Violette Leduc

    The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

    Leduc's short book is magnificently disproportionate to its length. A moving, beautiful and authentic classic. We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times, for bringing it back to us.

    € 13,95
  2. Wildcat Dome
    1. Yuko Tsushima

    Wildcat Dome

    A brilliantly layered commentary on postwar Japan... despite the grave subject matter, the novel’s tone, preserved faithfully in Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda’s expert translation, is gentle and warm, suggesting the author’s abundant optimism for human adaptability

    € 14,95
  3. Fenny
    1. Lettice Cooper

    Fenny

    A writer of quiet but strong, deep and varied gifts

    € 17,95
  4. The Passion
    1. Jeanette , Winterson

    The Passion

    Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn¿t work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children¿s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She writes regularly for the Guardian. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.

    € 13,00
  5. Lolly Willowes
    1. Sylvia Townsend , Warner

    Lolly Willowes

    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft.'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is Lolly Willowes . . . Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen Macdonald

    € 13,00
  6. Swallowing Geography
    1. Deborah Levy

    Swallowing Geography

    One of the few British writers comfortable on a world stage

    € 12,50
  7. Classic Summer Stories

    Classic Summer Stories

    A collection of short stories inspired by the most vibrant season of the year.

    € 14,95
  8. Wildcat Dome
    1. Yuko Tsushima

    Wildcat Dome

    A brilliantly layered commentary on postwar Japan... despite the grave subject matter, the novel’s tone, preserved faithfully in Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda’s expert translation, is gentle and warm, suggesting the author’s abundant optimism for human adaptability

    € 20,95
  9. Last Comes the Raven
    1. Italo Calvino

    Last Comes the Raven

    In these beautifully translated stories, the quality of the writing emerges as clearly as do the ease and range of his inventiveness. Calvino's special gift is to link the physical and immediate with an allegorical timelessness. All the characters and creatures in these stories conspire to convey a feeling of the wonder, mystery and terror of life

    € 13,95
  10. Exiles
    1. James , Joyce

    Exiles

    'The undertow of unspoken feeling is tumultuous, and although hardly anything happens the action amounts to a fearful adventure' New York TimesJames Joyce's play Exiles follows the story of writer Richard Rowan, who, along with his 'common-law wife' Bertha and their son Archie, has come home to Dublin after ten years away. The couple's return triggers an existential questioning, an anxiousness which is exacerbated by meetings with old friends and lovers. All this is set against the background of the summer of 1912, when Ireland and even England were threatening to tear themselves apart over Ulster. Exiles is a profound exploration of jealousy, doubt and the complexity of human desire; it is also about the torments of disunion in both the public and private realm.With a new introduction and notes by Andrew Gibson.

    € 13,00
  11. Between the Acts
    1. Virginia Woolf

    Between the Acts

    Annotated Edition

    Highly symbolic, and dealing with many of the themes that were most dear to Virginia Woolf, such as the condition of the individual in the current of history, sexual ambiguity and the tension between life and art, Between the Acts was the author's final novel. This edition includes notes and extra material.

    € 10,95
  12. Mrs. Dalloway
    1. Virginia Woolf

    Mrs. Dalloway

    € 6,95