Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this book follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. It presents rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, and their
On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reac
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 of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not -Woolf analyses the many ways in which women have been
'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 of war, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. The novel's use of stream of consciousness,
'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate MosseThis volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century.
Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece, set on the beautiful Isle of Skye.
Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness modernist masterpiece.
Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters' minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the lighthouse. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by fam
Ikonické dielo modernizmu a najznámejšie dielo Virginie Woolfovej, v ktorom autorka naplno preskúmala a kreatívne využila možnosti rôznych, na svoju dobu inovatívnych, rozprávačských techník. Pre jej postavy je charakteristická rozorvanosť a psychické problémy (postava Septima, ktorý sa po návrate z bojísk prvej svetovej vojny zúfalo zmieta vo svojej post-traumatickej stresovej poruche), či