Virginia Woolf

In her stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's gender-bending, period-hopping novel, award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl "is her usual unfailingly elegant, unbeatably witty self, cleverly braiding her own brand-name wit with Woolf's" (New York ) magazine. Preserving Woolf's vital ideas and lyrical tone, Ruhl brings to the stage the life of an Elizabethan nobleman who's magically transformed into an immortal woman. In her fresh translation of Three Sisters,...

Lytton Strachey fue el crítico literario por excelencia del final de la época victoriana; Virginia Woolf ya había escrito cuatro de sus grandes novelas (El cuarto de Jacob, La señora Dalloway, Orlando y Al faro); y ambos brillaban con luz propia en el muy exigente Círculo de Bloomsbury. A lo largo de veinticinco años, mediante la correspondencia que reúne este volumen, juzgaron con agudeza sus propias obras y las ajenas, se elogiaron y trituraron,...

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...

Presented here is Volume II of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three more of the most important feminist novels ever written: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto and My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. The first book in this collection is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's experimental and brilliant third novel. This semi-autobiographical book was hailed in its time as a...

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...

Here are short stories by the incomparable Virginia Woolf, including the story that was the original basis for the novel Mrs. Dalloway.

"Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores."--Publisher's description.

The annotated, authorized edition of one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century with commentary by leading Virginia Woolf scholar Mark Hussey.

From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and conflict between men and women.

To the Lighthouse

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One of the most important works of art of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is a profound, stirring, and ambitious novel written by an artist at the height of her extraordinary powers. Like all great works of art, To the Lighthouse is rich with meaning and implication. On the simplest level, it is about the Ramsay family, their vacation home on the Hebrides Islands in Scotland, and the guests who come to stay with them there. On a deeper...