Virginia Woolf
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Orlando: A Biography is a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have before or since. Inspired by the life of Woolf's friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, an accomplished poet and novelist, the story follows the life of an aristocratic nobleman who changes sex from man to woman and goes on to live for centuries, meeting all of the most influential and powerful...
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This new publication of "On Being Ill" with "Notes from Sick Rooms" presents Virginia Woolf and her mother, Julia Stephen, in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant and humorous essay "On Being Ill," Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being's experience, it is not celebrated as a subject of great literature in the way that love and war are embraced by writers and readers. We must, Woolf...
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Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device and for a demonstration of the sheer vitality of Virginia Woolf's writing, Orlando is unsurpassed. The novel is a provocative exploration of gender and history, as well as of the nature of biography itself; perhaps surprisingly, given these highly intellectual concerns,...
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Figura destacada del llamado «Grupo de Bloomsbury», Virginia Woolf fue autora de una serie de relatos que la sitúan en la vanguardia
del movimiento renovador de las técnicas narrativas. Fue en la amalgama de sentimientos, pensamientos y emociones, que es la subjetividad,
donde Woolf encontró el material apropiado para una narrativa que contribuyó a forjar la sensibilidad contemporánea. "Escribía contra la corriente", según afirma la...
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Presented here is Volume III of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist novels ever written: “Orlando: A Biography” by Virginia Woolf, “O Pioneers!” by Willa Cather and “So Big” by Edna Ferber.
The first book in this collection is “Orlando: A Biography”, a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have...
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Das Betasten der roten Blumen auf Mutters Kleid. Ein alter Baum im elterlichen Garten. Und die plötzliche Erkenntnis: Ich bin sterblich. Ausgehend von diesen Eindrücken erinnert sich Virginia Woolf an ihre Kindheit im großbürgerlichen Haushalt einer neunköpfigen Familie. So persönlich wie in keinem anderen Text erzählt sie von Sommerabenteuern und Soiréen, von der Schönheit und dem frühen Tod ihrer Mutter, von der Hass-Liebe zu ihrem Vater...