Bøger af Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, una de las autoras más relevantes de la literatura del siglo XX.La novela más popular de la autora de Una habitación propia.Clarissa Dalloway es una mujer de cincuenta y dos años de la alta sociedad londinense, casada con un diputado conservador del parlamento británico y madre de una hija adolescente. Un día de junio de 1923, se prepara para dar una fiesta en su casa aquella misma noche. Allí 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 con Peter Walsh.Pasado, presente y futuro se entretejen en este relato que, a través de las complejas vidas interiores de sus personajes, consigue explorar los límites de la experiencia humana. Por su narrativa cargada de lirismo, capaz de reseguir con maestría los monólogos interiores de los protagonistas, y su reivindicación de la condición femenina, La señora Dalloway se ha convertido en una de las novelas más revolucionarias e imprescindibles del siglo XX.

A Room of One?s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1929 and is based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at two colleges for women at Cambridge. In this famous essay, Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. In this essay, the author also asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. According to Woolf, women?s creativity has been curtailed due to centuries of prejudice and financial and educational disadvantages.To emphasize her view, she offers the example of an imaginary gifted but uneducated sister of William Shakespeare, who, discouraged from all eventually kills herself. Woolf celebrates the work of women who have overcome that tradition and become writers, including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. In the final section Woolf suggests that great minds are neutral and argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom. The author entreats her audience to write not only fiction but poetry, criticism, and scholarly works as well.

En modern klassiker!Virginia Woolfs genombrottsroman är en banbrytande och gripande berättelse om en ung mans kamp för att hitta sin plats i en värld styrd av sociala normer och konventioner.Genom ögonen på de kvinnor som står honom närmast får vi följa Jacob Flanders liv i det tidiga 1900-talets England – från barndomen i en idyllisk kustby till studier vid Cambridge och sökandet efter mening och identitet i Londons bohemiska konstliv. Genom Woolfs poetiska och djupt psykologiska skildring bjuds läsaren in i Jacobs värld och får ta del av hans kärlek, sorg, glädje och smärta. Virginia Woolf var en tongivande modernist och en av 1900-talets viktigaste engelskspråkiga författare. Med sin experimentella prosa och karaktäristiska berättarteknik var hon med och nydanade romangenren. Hennes verk har även ökat medvetenheten om kvinnorollen och inspirerat flera nutida feministiska rörelser.

Son tan estrechas las calles que van del Strand al Embankment que no es conveniente que las parejas paseen por ellas cogidas del brazo. Haciéndolo, exponen a los empleadillos de tres al cuarto a meterse en los charcos, en su afán por adelantarles, o a recibir ellos un empujón u oír alguna frase, no siempre muy gramatical, de boca de las oficinistas en su apresurado camino. En las calles de Londres, la belleza pasa desapercibida, pero la excentricidad paga un elevado tributo. Es preferible que la estatura, porte y físico sean normales, con tendencia a lo vulgar; y en cuanto a la indumentaria, conviene que no llame la atención bajo ningún concepto. Una tarde otoñal, a la hora en que el tráfico empezaba a intensificarse, un hombre, que llamaba la atención por su elevada estatura, paseaba con una mujer prendida a su brazo. A su alrededor, y asaltándoles con airadas miradas, rebullían, como hormigas en su marcha incesante, una multitud de seres que parecían diminutos en comparación con la esbelta pareja. Esos seres insignificantes, cargados con papeles, carpetas de documentos y preocupaciones, correteaban pendientes de la obsesión de que su salario semanal dependía única y exclusivamente de su eficacia. Eso explica que miraran con poca benevolencia la excepcional estatura del señor Ambrose y la capa de su esposa, que se interponían en su febril actividad.

Era una primavera vacilante. El tiempo, siempre cambiante, mandaba nubes azules y purpúreas que se deslizaban sobre la tierra. En el campo, los campesinos contemplaban con aprensión sus cultivos; en Londres, la gente alzaba la vista al cielo y abría y cerraba el paraguas. Pero en el mes de abril cabía esperar aquel tiempo. Miles de dependientes hacían este comentario al entregar la mercancía envuelta con esmero a las señoras de adornados vestidos que se hallaban al otro lado del mostrador, en Whiteley y en los almacenes Army and Navy. Interminables procesiones de compradores en el West End, y de hombres de negocios en el East End, circulaban por las aceras, como caravanas en una marcha perpetua, o al menos eso les parecía a aquellos que se detenían por alguna razón, ya fuera para echar una carta, o en el ventanal de un club de Piccadilly. La corriente de landós, victorias y cabriolés era incesante, ya que la temporada social acababa de comenzar.

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"Woolf's most lighthearted novel is a playful and exuberant romp through history. As a teenage nobleman, Orlando spends his days in revelry at the colorful Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth and his nights in writing earnest poetry. A favorite of the elderly queen, he falls in love with and is jilted by a wayward Russian princess. Two kings later, having reached his thirties, Orlando is sent to serve as ambassador to Constantinople, where he awakens one day to find himself in the body of a woman. The Lady Orlando takes this circumstance in stride and returns to England, where she engages in love affairs with both men and women, consorts with the famous poets of each age, finds happiness with an unconventional husband, and at last achieves publication of her own epic poem in the year 1928, the same year that Woolf published her novel. With its blend of fantastical adventure and satirical wit, Orlando was an immediate popular and critical success, one whose status as a classic has only grown with time."-- Provided by publisher.

"The long-lived protagonist of Orlando begins as a passionate teenage aristocrat, whose days are spent in rowdy revelry at the colorful Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth and his nights in writing earnest poetry. A favorite of the elderly queen, he falls in love with and is jilted by a wayward Russian princess. Two kings later, now in his thirties, Orlando is sent to serve as ambassador to Constantinople, where he awakens one day to find himself in the body of a woman. The Lady Orlando takes this circumstance in stride. She returns to England, engages in love affairs with both men and women, consorts with the famous poets of each age, finds happiness with a gender-nonconforming husband, and at last achieves publication of her own epic poem in the year 1928. A playful and exuberant romp through history, Orlando is Woolf's most lighthearted and unusual novel."-- Provided by publisher.

The beautiful Everyman gift edition in hardback.The Lord Orlando's country seat has 365 rooms. An exquisitely beautiful youth, he is a favourite of the ageing Queen Elizabeth and enjoys all that Court and tavern have to offer. He falls passionately in love with the intriguing Sasha, an androgynous Russian princess, who jilts him. Stricken, he takes up Literature, penning huge quantities of poems and plays, 'all romantic, and all long'. A few decades later a still youthful Orlando is appointed ambassador to Constantinople by Charles II. Here he wakes up one day and finds he has the body of a woman. "Different sex, same person", she observes, unphased.In London, it is the eighteenth century, and she can hobnob with "men of genius" Pope and Swift, Johnson and Boswell. She has affairs with both women and men, but before long it is the nineteenth century, oppressively gloomy and moral and probably time to find a husband. Fortunately, in a Brontësque moment on a moor, the gender- nonconforming Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, newly back from Cape Horn, gallops past and scoops her up into bliss.Woolf's most unusual and joyous novel was inspired by her affair with the dashing author and aristocrat, Vita Sackville West.

Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally draining The Waves, the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English history that she had begun in Orlando: A Biography, and to which she would return in Between the Acts. Commonly read as a modernist consideration of city life seen through the eyes of a dog, Flush serves as a harsh criticism of the supposedly unnatural ways of living in the city. The figure of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the text is often read as an analogue for other female intellectuals, like Woolf herself, who suffered from illness, feigned or real, as a part of their status as female writers. Most insightful and experimental are Woolf's emotional and philosophical views verbalised in Flush's thoughts. As he spends more time with Barrett Browning, Flush becomes emotionally and spiritually connected to the poet and both begin to understand each other despite their language barriers. For Flush smell is poetry, but for Barrett Browning, poetry is impossible without words. In Flush Woolf examines the barriers that exist between woman and animal created by language yet overcome through symbolic actions. The book, due to its subject matter, has often been considered one of her less serious artistic endeavours; however, she uses her distinctive stream of consciousness style to experiment with a non-human perspective. In places the novella plays with realism by allowing Flush an improbable amount of perception for a canine (Flush seems to grasp some idea of social class in humans, a concept recurrently criticized in the story as he becomes more "democratic" later in life), and can "talk" to other dogs on the street. At other times the reader is forced to interpret events from the dog's limited knowledge (Flush sees her owner agitated over markings on a paper and cannot understand that she is in love). For material, Woolf drew primarily on Barrett Browning's two poems on dogs ("To Flush, My Dog" and "Flush or Faunus") and on the published correspondence of the poet and her husband, Robert Browning. From this material, Woolf creates a biography that works on three levels. It is overtly a biography of a dog's life. Since this dog is of interest primarily for its owner, the work is also an impressionistic biography of Elizabeth Barrett during the most dramatic years of her life. At this level, Flush mostly recapitulates the romantic legend of Barrett Browning's life: early confinement by a mysterious illness and a doting but tyrannical father; a passionate romance with an equally talented poet; an elopement that permanently estranges the father, but which allows Barrett Browning to find happiness and health in Italy. On a third level, the book gives Woolf an opportunity to return to some of her most frequent topics: the glory and misery of London; the Victorian mindset; class differences; and the ways in which women oppressed by "fathers and tyrants" may find freedom. Woolf ostensibly uses the life of a dog as pointed social criticism, ranging across topics from feminism and environmentalism to class conflict. (wikipedia.org)

To the Lighthouse explores the relationships and inner thoughts of a family on their visits to the Isle of Sky.

A Society & Kew Gardens: Level 600 Reader (L+) (CEFR B1) presents modern and simplified versions of two famous stories written by Virginia Woolf. A Society, first published in 1921, shows the issue of inequality in British society in the early 1900s. It ridicules the elitist social circles of England with satire, revealing their shallow and isolated nature. Kew Gardens, first published in 1919, explores the thoughts and feelings of various characters during a visit to the London botanical gardens.Level 600 Matatabi Reader (L+)* Flesch Kincaid Grade Level 3.9* CERF B1* (L+): 1190 Headwords* 5180 (3860 + 1320) Words

Originally published in 1929, A Room of One's Own eloquently states Woolf's conviction that in order to create works of genius, women must be freed from financial obligations and social restrictions.

Betty Flanders, veuve, trois enfants, Archer, le second Jacob, le dernier au berceau. Virginia Woolf écrit la vie de Jacob par petites touches légères successives, comme pour une aquarelle. Les portraits de l'entourage de Jacob au long de sa vie viennent éclairer sa personnalité.

Orlando est un jeune noble anglais. Lorsqu'il rencontre la reine Élisabeth Ire, elle décide de l'emmener à sa cour de Greenwich et, jusqu'à la mort de la reine, la vie d'Orlando est celle de son courtisan favori. Par la suite il reste à la cour de son successeur Jacques Ier. Pendant le Grand Gel de 1608, Orlando tombe amoureux de Sasha, fille de l'ambassadeur de Russie, qui l'abandonnera. Revenu dans sa demeure natale, Orlando fait l'étrange expérience de s'endormir pendant une semaine, à la suite de quoi il décide de partir comme ambassadeur en Orient. Là, il refait la même expérience d'un sommeil d'une semaine mais cette fois il se réveille femme. Dans son incarnation féminine Orlando passe quelque temps en compagnie de Tziganes à partager leur vie nomade, en appréciant la condition des femmes dans ces tribus itinérantes, la jugeant plus libre qu'en Angleterre. Elle n'en retournera pas moins à Londres, poussée par son amour pour la poésie. Son existence se partage alors entre la demeure natale, où elle a la possibilité de se consacrer à la poésie et de recevoir des poètes célèbres, et Londres, où elle fréquente indifféremment la bonne société et les prostituées. Orlando trouvera par hasard l'amour auprès de l'aventurier Lord Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine. Le roman se termine en 1928, très précisément «le jeudi 11 octobre 1928», alors qu'Orlando est devenue une femmeécrivain à succès grâce au poème qu'elle a écrit pendant une grande partie de sa vie et qui lui a valu un prix littéraire.(extrait de Wikipedia)

Île de Skye. La famille Ramsay, huit enfants, reçoit comme chaque année des amis. Puis la mort survient, celle de la mère et de deux des enfants, et la maison est abandonnée. Une dizaine d'années après, c'est le retour à la maison. Tout cela dominé, en toile de fond, par une promenade vers une île et son phare. Difficile de cerner les faits, ce texte est surtout une analyse des sentiments, un vagabondage des pensées de chacun des personnages du roman.

Kvindelige forfattere var i høj grad med til at forme gysergenren, da den voksede ud af den gotiske roman i slutningen af det 19. århundrede og for alvor tog form i starten af det 20. århundrede. Disse kvinder var ikke blot meget populære, om gyset så var deres foretrukne litterære felt eller ej, mange af dem vandt også stor anerkendelse i samtiden. De fortjener at blive husket på lige fod med de bedste mandlige forfattere inden for genren. Denne antologi er blevet til med det formål. De ni kvindelige forfattere i denne bog var alle markante kvinder, der på forskellig vis udfordrede tidens normer, kønsroller og seksualitet. Novellerne i denne samling er en buket af forskelligartede gys, og selvom et par af disse har mænd i hovedrollerne, så mærker man en anden tilgang til genren end hos de mere bombastiske mandlige gyserforfattere. Kvindernes tekster er ofte mere tvetydige, snigende og åndelige. Mange af novellerne har selvstændige og handlekraftige kvinder i hovedrollerne. Kvinder, der må klare sig selv i en barsk verden, hvor den stærke mand kun sjældent bruger sin magt til at beskytte dem. 'Døden og kvinden' indholder noveller af Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Amelia Blandford Edwards, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky og Charlotte Riddell

"A Haunted House" was first published in 1921 as a part of Virginia Woolf's short story collection Monday or Tuesday. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday and five other stories, the book makes available Virginia Woolf's shorter works of fiction.Collection Contains: A Haunted House;An Unwritten Novel;A Society;Blue & Green;In The Orchard;Kew Gardens;Monday or Tuesday;Mr. Bennett And Mrs. Brown;Mrs. Dalloway In Bond Street;The Mark On The Wall & The String Quartet.

Based on the events of a single day, a Wednesday in June 1923, Mrs. Dalloway is a unique book as its narrative skillfully interweaves unconnected storylines to take place on this fateful day. The story opens with Clarissa running an errand to buy flowers. Reactions of different people can be noticed when unexpected events keep occurring throughout the day. For example, a plane writing in the sky and a car emitting an explosive noise. Peter, her old partner, shows up not long after she gets home. During their conversation, it becomes evident that the two are still very much in love with one another. In a vulnerable exchange, Peter asks Clarissa if she's happy. Elizabeth, Clarissa's daughter, cuts them off before Clarissa can respond. The narrative then shifts to a World War I veteran, Septimus Warren Smith, who is suffering from PTSD. In order to meet Sir William Bradshaw, a psychiatrist, he is waiting with his wife, Lucrezia. Another perspective switch takes place and this time we get to experience Richard's narrative, who is going through an internal struggle with respect to his relationship with his wife Clarissa. The change in narratives keeps the reader on edge and leads to a conclusion which manages to bring everything together.

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

Gabi has selected a superb range of poetry, prose and essays in this anthology. She offers an introductory overview which gives context to the selected contributions from women writing about the rise of the New Woman, and/or expressing their hopes for freedom and autonomy during the early part of the twentieth century.