WOOLF VIRGINIA

(P/B) MRS DALLOWAY
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) MRS DALLOWAY
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the who...
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(P/B) The Common Reader: First Series
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out' In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon - Jane Austen, George Eliot and Geoffrey Chaucer among others - with the everyday, 'common reader' in mind. With wit and insight, Woolf also revisits classic novels and examines scholarly subjects, fr...
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(P/B) A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism. (From the publisher)...
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Φλας (σκληρόδετη έκδοση)
«Και οι δύο έμειναν έκπληκτοι. Χοντρές μπούκλες έπεφταν στα πλάγια του προσώπου της δεσποινίδας Μπάρετ· μεγάλα ζωηρά μάτια έλαμπαν ένα μεγάλο στόμα χαμογελούσε. Χοντρά αυτιά κρέμονταν στα πλάγια του προσώπου του Φλας· και τα δικά του μάτια ήταν μεγάλα και ζωηρά: το στόμα του ήταν πλατύ. Υπήρχε κάποια ομοιότητα μεταξύ τους. Καθώς κοιτάζονταν, ο κάθε ένας ένιωθε: Να 'μαι εγώ - και αμέσως μετά ένιωθε: Μα πόσο διαφορετικός! Το δικό της ήταν το ωχρό κουρασμένο πρόσωπο μιας ανάπηρης, αποκομμένης από τον αέρα, το φως, την ελευθερία. Το δικό του ή...
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(P/B) NIGHT AND DAY
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her father's life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolf's light, delicate second novel is both ...
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(P/B) THE YEARS
The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime, and is a powerful indictment of 'Victorianism' and its values. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) BETWEEN THE ACTS
Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential' than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the book weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of a war which is to change the pattern of history. Before the book was published in the spring of 1941, Virginia Woolf had taken her own life. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE WAVES
'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The subsequent continuity of these six main characters, as they develop from childhood ...
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(P/B) TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. (from the publisher)...
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ΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΣΕ ΕΝΑΝ ΝΕΟ ΠΟΙΗΤΗ
Η επιλογή των δέκα χαρακτηριστικών αυτών δοκιμίων της Βιρτζίνια Γουλφ, από τα πολλά που είχε δημοσιεύσει σε εφημερίδες και περιοδικά για να συγκεντρωθούν αργότερα σε συλλογές, έγινε με κριτήριο τη θεματική τους, έτσι ώστε να καλύπτεται ένα ευρύ φάσμα ζητημάτων της συγγραφής που απασχολούσαν τους λογοτέχνες κατά την εποχή του μεσοπολέμου. Τα δοκίμια του παρόντος τόμου καλύπτουν εκτεταμένη χρονική περίοδο, καθώς γράφτηκαν από το 1919 μέχρι το 1940, και παρατίθενται με χρονολογική σειρά. Αναφερόμενη στο έργο πολυάριθμων πεζογράφων, ποιητών κα...
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ΕΝΑ ΔΙΚΟ ΤΗΣ ΔΩΜΑΤΙΟ
Η πνευματική ελευθερία εξαρτάται από τα υλικά αγαθά. Η ποίηση εξαρτάται από την πνευματική ελευθερία. Και οι γυναίκες υπήρξαν πάντοτε φτωχές, όχι μόνο εδώ χαι διακόσια χρόνια, αλλά από την αρχή του χρόνου. Οι γυναίκες είχαν λιγότερη πνευματική ελευθερία από τους γιους των Αθηναίων σκλάβων. Κατά συνέπεια, οι γυναίκες δεν είχαν στον ήλιο μοίρα προκειμένου να γράψουν ποίηση. Αυτός είναι και ο λόγος που έδωσα τόσο μεγάλη έμφαση στα χρήματα και σε ένα δωμάτιο αποκλειστικά δικό μας. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(P/B) ORLANDO
Contains the original 1928 illustrations, notes and an updated extra material Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I's court favourites, is the object of many ladies' attentions, but after suffering heartbreak he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any thoughts of marriage. Having obtained an ambassadorial post in Constantinople, Orlando falls into a long sleep and wakes up suddenly transformed into a woman. Also blessed with the gift of never ageing, she embarks on adventurous travels throughout Europe and the follow...
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(H/B) Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warre...
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(P/B) Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warr...
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(P/B) THE WAVES
The Waves, more than any of Virginia Woolf's novels, conveys the complexities of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that conveys the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationshi...
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(P/B) JACOB'S ROOM
"Listless is the air in an empty room, just swelling the curtain; the flowers in the jar shift. One fibre in the wicker armchair creaks, though no one sits there..." Set in the halcyon days of pre-war innocence, Virginia Woolf's third novel, Jacob's Room, follows the progress of a young man as he passes from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. Wandering through the windswept shores of Cornwall to the sunscorched landscape of Greece, his character is revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents, thoughts and impressions...
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(P/B) LIBERTY
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of the mind’ Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing and under what conditions they might break free, to the solace derived from haunting London's streets, these essays and stories present Woolf at her most impassioned, rendering t...
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ΤΡΕΙΣ ΓΚΙΝΕΕΣ
Όσοι πίστευαν ότι η Βιρτζίνια Γουλφ ήταν πολύ απορροφημένη από την τέχνη της για να ασχοληθεί με ότι συνέβαινε γύρω της, θα εκπλαγούν απ' αυτή την πνευματώδη, διαυγή και εκλεπτυσμένη πολεμική που τόσο έξοχα πραγματεύεται την υπόθεση της ισότητας και της απελευθέρωσης των γυναικών. Οι "Τρεις Γκινέες" είναι μια εξαιρετικά εύστοχη εναρκτήρια βολή στη μάχη που μαίνεται ως τις μέρες μας. Με τις "Τρεις Γκινέες" η Βιρτζίνια Γουλφ προσπαθεί ν' απαντήσει στο ερώτημα «πως κατά τη γνώμη σας μπορούμε ν' αποφύγουμε τον πόλεμο» που της απευθύνει με μια ...
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Η ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΙΑ (ΔΙΗΓΗΜΑ)
Σπουδαία Βρετανή συγγραφέας και δοκιμιογράφος που θεωρήθηκε πρωτοπόρος και νεωτερίζουσα λογοτέχνης στον 20ό αιώνα, συμβάλλοντας καθοριστικά στη μορφή του μυθιστορήματος, καθώς και μία από τους μεγαλύτερους καινοτόμους στην αγγλική κοινωνία του Λονδίνου και μέλος της Ομάδας Μπλούσμπερυ. Μτα διασημότερα έργα της είναι τα μυθιστορήματα: "Κυρία Νταλογουέη" (Mrs Dalloway, 1925), "Στο Φάρο" (To the Lighthouse, 1927), "Ορλάντο" (Orlando, 1928), το δοκίμιο "A room of one's own" (1929), όπου περιγράφει τις δυσκολίες που αντιμετωπίζουν οι γυναίκες ...
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