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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.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
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.
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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.
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
Penned in 1925 during the aftermath of a nervous breakdown, On
Being Ill is a groundbreaking essay by the Modernist giant Virginia
Woolf that seeks to establish illness as a topic for discussion in
literature. Delving into considerations of the loneliness and
vulnerability experienced by those suffering from illness, as well
as aspects of privilege others might have, the essay resounds with
an honesty and clarity that still rings true today. 'Novels, one
would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic
poems to typhoid, odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no -
with a few exceptions... literature does its best to maintain that
its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain
glass through which the soul looks straight and clear, and, save
for one or two passions such as desire and greed, is null, and
negligible and non-existent.'
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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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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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
When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of
Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the
following day, little does she know that this trip will only be
completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war,
grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character
tries to readjust their memories and emotions with the shifts of
time and reality, this long-delayed excursion will also prove to be
a journey of self-discovery and fulfilment for them. Rich in
symbolism, daring in style, elegiac in tone and encapsulating
Virginia Woolf's ideas on life, art and human relationships, To the
Lighthouse is a landmark of twentieth-century literature and one of
the high points of early Modernism.
A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and
perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is
highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of
women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays
bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout
history she has been denied the social and economic independence
assumed by men. Woolf's prescription is clear: if a woman is to
find creative expression equal to a man's, she must have an
independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute
analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly
resonant and relevant in the 21st century. The novel explores these
issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a
young woman whose 'voyage out' to South America opens up powerful
encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. As she begins
to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of
love, but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the
comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final
undertow of the novel is tragic as, in some of her finest writing,
she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit.
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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Discovery Miles 2 000
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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
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