Virginia Woolf

Woolf originally began work on The Voyage Out in 1910 and had finished an early draft by 1912. Yet the novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not published until 1915. It was written during a period in which Woolf was especially psychologically vulnerable. She suffered from periods of depression and at one point attempted suicide. The resultant work contained the seeds of all that would blossom in her later work: the innovative narrative...

The authorized, original edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece and one of the most "moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century" (Michael Cunningham), with a foreword by Maureen Howard. 

In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she

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The Mark on the Wall is not about the mark. Or perhaps it is. A small, dark speck becomes the starting point for a cascade of thought-quiet, precise, wandering. In a room with a fire, a cigarette, and silence thick as dust, a mind drifts from memory to philosophy, from loss to structure, from trees to snails. Virginia Woolf's voice here is both still and restless, charting the motion of consciousness as it moves without hurry or warning. This story...

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Ben was striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleven o'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on a beach. But there was something solemn in the deliberate swing of the repeated strokes; something stirring in the murmur of wheels and the shuffle of footsteps. No doubt they were not all bound on errands of happiness. There is much more to be said about us than...

Clarissa Dalloway es una mujer de la alta sociedad londinense, casada con un diputado conservador del parlamento británico. Clarissa se prepara para dar una fiesta en su casa donde se rencontrará con amigos que hace muchos años que no ve. Mientras pasea por las calles londinenses ultimando los preparativos, Clarissa se encuentra inmersa en sus propios recuerdos y examina las decisiones que ha tomado a lo largo de su vida, como su romance de infancia...

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was a feminist, pacifist, anti-fascist and English writer born in South Kensington, London. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors, literary critics, and pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. This is the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf, a talk called, "Craftsmanship."

Una casa encantada se centra en la historia de dos parejas que comparten la misma casa, con la peculiaridad de que una de ellas es un matrimonio de espectros. El relato es muy breve, pero es suficiente para que Virginia Woolf comience a experimentar en sus teorías narrativas. Virgina Woolf fue hija del crítico literario, periodista e historiador de literatura inglés, Leslie Stephen, se casó con Leonard Woolf con quien fundó la editorial Hogarth...

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...

n this hauntingly poetic essay, Virginia Woolf captures the fragile beauty of life and death through the simple image of a moth struggling in the light. As she reflects on the inevitability of mortality and the quiet force of nature, Woolf's sharp, introspective prose invites readers to confront their own fleeting existence. The Death of the Moth is a meditation on life's transience, a masterclass in Woolf's ability to turn ordinary moments into profound...