Woolf: 493 books

A Passionate Apprentice comprises the first years of Virginia Woolf's Journal - from 1879 to 1909. Beginning in early January, when Woolf was almost fifteen, the pages open at a time when she was slowly recovering from a period of madness following her mother's death in May 1895. Between this January...

The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa--and sometimes even further afield. In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created,...

Harcourt is proud to introduce new annotated editions of three Virginia Woolf classics, ideal for the college classroom and beyond. For the first time, students reading these books will have the resources at hand to help them understand the text as well as the reasons and methods behind Woolf's writing....

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...

A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). Considered one of the...

From the Foreword By Philip Dossick: The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary and unexpected materializes for the first time.  It is so for all her novels. The language itself...

The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary and unexpected materializes for the first time.  It is so for all her novels. The language itself dazzles: vivid, evocative, poetic language,...

Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. With her husband, Leonard Woolf, she started the Hogarth Press in 1917: the list ranged widely in fiction, poetry, politics and psychoanalysis, and published all Virginia Woolf’s own work. Its first publication...

Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf's, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break away from...

Cet eBook présente une version bilingue : Français / Anglais. Traduction française de l'édition originale anglaise 1928. Virginia Woolf est l'un des plus grands écrivains du XXe siècle. Elle s'affranchit des codes du roman et expose les  inégalités auxquelles les femmes...

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character...

Cet eBook présente une version bilingue : Français / Anglais. Traduction française de l'édition originale anglaise 1925. Virginia Woolf est l'un des plus grands écrivains du XXe siècle. Elle s'affranchit des codes du roman et expose les inégalités auxquelles les femmes doivent...

TRADUCTION INÉDITE, OUVRAGE BILINGUE ANGLAIS-FRANÇAIS. [...] Il est déjà convaincu qu'un roman n'est pas un jouet, ni un plaidoyer ; c'est un moyen de livrer des impressions sans concession mais fidèles à la réalité de la vie des hommes et des femmes. [...] En décidant de regrouper...

TRADUCTION INÉDITE, OUVRAGE BILINGUE ANGLAIS-FRANÇAIS. [...] C'est pourquoi Emily et Charlotte Brontë en appellent toujours à la nature. Toutes deux ressentent le besoin d'un symbole plus puissant pour révéler les grandes passions endormies de la nature humaine que les mots ou les actes...