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Neustále sa tvorím a pretváram. Román Vlny, ktorý prvýkrát vyšiel v roku 1931, patrí medzi najvýraznejšie experimentálne texty Virginie Woolfovej. Vlny sú polyfonickou fúziou vnútorných monológov šiestich hlavných postáv Bernarda, Susan, Rhody, Louisa,…
V románe K majáku z roku 1927 sa Virginia Woolfová, jedna z najinovatívnejších autoriek a najuznávanejších literárnych kritičiek dvadsiateho storočia, zameriava na rodinné vzťahy a napätie medzi mužmi a ženami. Prostredníctvom prúdu vedomia prezentuje…
'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret DrabbleTo the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow…
„Zrejme je to môj najpresvedčivejší román… Podľa mňa som v ňom načrela do najskrytejších zákutí svojej mysle,“ poznačila si do denníka britská spisovatelka Virginia Woolfová po dokončení rukopisu Pani Dallowayová. Kritici aj čitateľská obec sa zhodujú…
A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay and using powerful images and memorable thought experiments -such as a fictional sister…
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. 'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the…
'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary SupplementFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer…
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your…
As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially made for the occasion, is clearly old-fashioned, dowdy…
The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her father’s ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South America. Despite being accompanied by her father and her aunt and uncle, Helen and Ridley Ambrose, the passage leads to Rachel’s awakening, both as a…
Written in the same period as Mrs Dalloway these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the excitement, the fluctuations of mood and temper and the heightened emotions which surround these social…
Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret.…
Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given by Woolf at Girton College, Cambridge,…
The first time Woolf's essay on the power of reading has been published in a single standalone volume. Small format, highly packaged HB - perfect for till point and Christmas gifting
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITHWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADEWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?
Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith 'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing…
Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME…