Virginia Woolf
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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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.
...2) The Waves
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Trace the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. Each character tells their own story through powerful, poetic monologues. By listening to these voices struggling to impose order and meaning on their lives, get drawn into a literary journey that stunningly reproduces the complex, confusing and contradictory nature of human experience.
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"La duquesa y el joyero" de Virginia Woolf es un cuento que explora las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y las expectativas sociales. La historia sigue a Oliver Bacon, un joyero modesto, que se enamora perdidamente de la duquesa de Lambourne, una mujer de alta alcurnia. A pesar de las diferencias sociales abismales entre ellos, Bacon cree que puede conquistar el corazón de la duquesa con un regalo extraordinario: un collar de esmeraldas. Sin...
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Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was an English writer from Kensington, London, who pioneered a narrative mode called "stream of consciousness" to describe the thoughts and feelings of the narrator. Regarded as one of the most prominent modernist 20th-century writers, Woolf's works have gained much attention for inspiring feminism, as well as, numerous films, novels, and plays. The following recording is from a radio broadcast on...
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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."
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The slim book Monday or Tuesday offers an excursion into Virginia Woolf's early excursions in "stream of consciousness" writing she was to become famous for; including her so-termed "Moments of being," in a format of a collection of short stories mainly concerned with people's thoughts as well as psychology in general, the human and particularly female condition, and aesthetics which inspired and engaged her much of the time helping other writers...
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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...
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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...
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Gratis por lanzamiento!
-En español neutro, narración humana-
Una habitación propia es un ensayo escrito por Virginia Woolf. Publicado por primera vez el 24 de octubre de 1929, el ensayo está basado en una serie de conferencias que la autora desarrolló en octubre de 1928 en el Newnham College y el Girton College, ambas universidades femeninas de la Universidad de Cambridge. Si bien el ensayo emplea un narrador ficticio y la prosa para explorar...
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Step into the glittering world of post-war London with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street, brought to life in this immersive audiobook experience. Follow Clarissa Dalloway as she moves through the elegant shops and bustling streets of Bond Street, where each encounter stirs memories, emotions, and profound reflections on identity, time, and the lingering effects of war. This introspective journey offers a rich, sensory exploration of a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships.
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"Virginia Woolf's exuberant 'biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the 'life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted...
15) Mrs. Dalloway
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. 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 on the brink of madness....
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1989
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English
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"Though she is best known as a novelist, this comprehensive volume displays Virginia Woolf as a master of short fiction. In almost fifty sketches and stories, Woolf updated the narrative models of her day with a powerful avant-garde style that later distinguished her classic novels. [This book] chronicles thirty-five years of Woolf's most innovative writing. From early works such as "The Mark on the Wall" and "Kew Gardens" to later works in which...