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In 1910, the young and passionate artist, Lily Briscoe, begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay and her youngest son, James. Initially discouraged, Lily spends ten years building the confidence to trust in her vision and finish her masterpiece. To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf¿s semi-autobiographical novel about family, the human experience, and the acceptance of all life has to offer good, bad and everything in between.

In 1910, the young and passionate artist, Lily Briscoe, begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay and her youngest son, James. Initially discouraged, Lily spends ten years building the confidence to trust in her vision and finish her masterpiece. To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf¿s semi-autobiographical novel about family, the human experience, and the acceptance of all life has to offer good, bad and everything in between.

First published in 1923 but failing to gain the same fame as her groundbreaking collection Monday or Tuesday, WoolfâEUR(TM)s short story In the Orchard is perhaps her most experimental, painting the same picture in three very different ways.

The fictional portrait of Woolf's close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, the hero Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, a dreamy and romantic youth who wakes up one day to find himself transformed, astonishingly, into a woman. Over the span of three centuries, Orlando will fall in love many times and rub shoulders with the great artists and writers--and observe how differently history treats men than women. Bold and tender, ...

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To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's transcendent masterpiece, is a luminous exploration of the human psyche, the passage of time, and the inescapable nature of loss. Set against the rugged beauty of the Scottish coast, the novel follows the Ramsay family and their shifting relationships, as they navigate the joys and sorrows that punctuate the passage of time. Woolf's groundbreaking narrative technique weaves together the inner lives of her c...

Jacob's Room, a groundbreaking novel by the incomparable Virginia Woolf, is an innovative and beautifully crafted exploration of a young man's life, from his idyllic childhood to his untimely death. Through the use of Woolf's signature stream-of-consciousness style and intricate narrative structure, readers are granted an intimate glimpse into Jacob's inner world, as well as the lives of those he encounters along the way. Set against the back...

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 d...

Set on an island off the Scottish coast, To the Lighthouse minutely examines the fleeting impressions of a large cast of family, friends, lovers, and hangers-on. Who can we be, Virginia Woolf invites us to ask, if no one can ever know our hearts¿if they¿re unknowable even to ourselves? To the Lighthouse remains one of the most important Modernist novels, exquisitely composed by one of the most gifted writers of the Modernist movement. The open...

Probably Virginia Woolf¿s best-known novel, Mrs. Dalloway, originally published in 1925, is a glorious, ground-breaking text. On the surface, it follows Clarissa Dalloway, an Englishwoman in her fifties, minute by minute through the June day on which she is having a party. At a deeper level, however, the novel demonstrates, through an effortless stream of consciousness, the connections formed in human interaction¿whether these interactions are...

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? In her third novel, Virginia Woolf departs from conventional narrative and explores storytelling through discordant scenes and impressions. Jacob Flanders¿ life story is told through the perspectives of the people in his life. In Jacob¿s Room, we see Jacob grow from a youn...

Miss Rachel Vinrace, aged twenty-four and previously interested only in music, is on a voyage both literal and metaphorical. An ocean cruise with her father leaves her for the summer at her Aunt¿s villa in an unnamed South American country, where she meets the English inhabitants of the local town¿s hotel. As the season progresses she starts to become entangled in their own lives and passions, and through those burgeoning acquaintances and fri...

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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 excent...

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...

Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.? If Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he, would she have got the same opportunities to develop her skills? Constructed around Woolf's idea that to write fiction a woman must have money and a room of her own, this revolutionary work depicts a woman's predicaments as she struggles deep within for some place of her own wh...

Hay una frase en la «Vida de Gray», del doctor Johnson, que bien pudo ser escrita en todas esas salas, demasiado humildes para ser llamadas bibliotecas, aunque llenas de libros, donde gente anónima se entrega a la lectura: «¿ me regocijo de coincidir con el lector común, pues el sentido común de los lectores, incorrupto por prejuicios literarios, después de todos los refinamientos de la sutileza y el dogmatismo de la erudición, debe decidir en...

Universalmente se reconoce a la familia de la que descendía nuestro biografiado como una de las de más rancia estirpe. Por tanto, no es extraño que el origen de este apellido se pierda en la oscuridad de los tiempos. Hace muchos millones de años, el país que hoy se llama España bullía con los fermentos de la Creación. Pasaron siglos, apareció la vegetación, donde hay vegetación, ha decretado la Naturaleza que haya también conejos, y, dondequie...