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In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa
Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and
remembering those she once loved. In another part of London,
Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the brink of
madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the
party reaches its glittering climax. Over the course of a single
day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an
uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and
future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by
minute, the feel of life itself.
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best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of
high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface,
yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war
Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the
surface of all of Woolf's characters in Mrs Dalloway. Centred
around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding
a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other
central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet
never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that
haunts each person. One of Virginia Woolf's most accomplished
novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most
revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes
that it tackles. The sense that Clarissa has married the wrong
person, her past love for another female friend and the death of an
intended party guest all serve to amplify this stultifying
existence.
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best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit
their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the
excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia
Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and
in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes
ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and
observations of the novel's disparate cast. A landmark of high
modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels,
To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the
question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the
lost but not forgotten. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100
best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa
Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and
remembering those she once loved. In another part of London,
Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the brink of
madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the
party reaches its glittering climax. Â Over the course of a
single day, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness,
bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, minute
by minute, the feel of life itself. Â Â
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The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they
happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit
the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse
becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the births and
deaths, that punctuate the individual lives of the Ramsays. Â
Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women's struggle for
independence and creative opportunity A Room of One's Own is one of
Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for
its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement. Based on a
lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, it is one of the great
feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and
Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted
(imaginary) sister, and the effects of poverty and sexual
constraint on female creativity. The work was ranked by The
Guardian newspaper as number 45 in the 100 World's Best Non-fiction
Books. Part of the bestselling Capstone series, this collectible,
hard-back edition of A Room of One's Own includes an insightful
introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve that explains the book's place
in modernist literature and why it still resonates with
contemporary readers. Born in 1882, Virginia Woolf was one of the
most forward-thinking English writers of her time. Author of the
classic novels Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927),
she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters and
biographies, and a member of the celebrated Bloomsbury Set of
intellectuals and artists. Discover why A Room of One's Own is
considered among the greatest and most influential works of female
empowerment and creativity Learn why Woolf's classic has stood the
test of time. Make this attractive, high-quality hardcover edition
a permanent addition to your library Enjoy an insightful
introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve, who connects the themes of
the text to the concerns of today's audience Capstone Classics
brings A Room of One's Own to a new generation of readers who can
discover how Woolf's book broke new artistic ground and advanced
the position of women writers and creatives around the world.
First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this
enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia
Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a
measured but ardent tone, Woolf weaves together thought and quote,
verse and prose into a moving tract on the power literature can
have over its reader, in a way which still resounds with truth
today. 'I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the Day of
Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen
come to receive their rewards - their crowns, their laurels, their
names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble - the Almighty will
turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees
us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no
reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved
reading."'
Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical
writing: "By far the most important book about Virginia
Woolf...that has appeared since her death" [Angus Wilson, Observer
(London)]. Edited and with an Introduction by Jeanne Schulkind;
Index.
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best-loved, essential classics. There was a star riding through
clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me' Six friends
traverse the uneven road of life together in Virginia Woolf's most
unconventional classic. Bernard, Jinny, Louis, Neville, Rhoda and
Susan first meet as children by the sea, and their lives are
forever changed. A poetic novel written in a lyrical way only Woolf
could master, these narrators face both triumph and tragedy that
touches them all. Throughout their lives, they examine the
relationship between past and present, and the meaning of life
itself. A landmark of innovative fiction and the most experimental
of Virginia Woolf's novels, The Waves is still regarded as one of
the greatest works ever written in the English language.
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