Fear no more the heat of the sun.'



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 whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death.



The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

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A Room of One's Own is considered Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'.

Yirminci yüzyılda roman geleneğini köklü biçimde değiştiren yazarlar arasında önemli bir yeri olan Virginia Woolf’un Deniz Feneri adlı kitabı, en çok okunan ve en sevilen romanları arasında yer alıyor. Bu romanıyla Woolf kendini zamanının öteki yazarlarından ayıran biçem ve yöntemi geliştirmiş, kendi roman tekniğine uygun en iyi yapıtını vermiştir. Bilindiği gibi James Joyce ve Virginia Woolf, bireyin günlük yaşamını ‘bilinç akışı’ ile birlikte ve olduğu gibi, tüm karmaşıklığıyla yapıtlarına yansıtmayı amaç edinen, biçime özen gösteren yazarların başında gelirler. Ramsay ailesinin İskoçya’daki yazlıklarında geçirdikleri birkaç günü anlatan Deniz Feneri, yazarın kendi hayatından izler taşıyor. Bu arada, yazarın, güçlü İngiliz kadın hareketinden etkilendiğini ve zamanın önde gelen feminist yazarlarından olduğunu da gözardı etmemek gerekir. İlk kez 1927 yılında yayımlanan bu romanın baş kadın kişisi Mrs. Ramsay, o yılların okur yazar, varlıklı ya da orta sınıf kadınlarının feminizm adına yaptıklarını, düşündüklerini yansıtmaktadır.



"Deniz Feneri, İngilizce’deki muazzam ağıtlardan biridir, zamanı aşan bir kitap."

Margaret Drabble

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'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful'. In such conditions, Virginia Woolf takes to London's streets in search of a pencil. The account of her journey - the people, the places, the pleasure - soon becomes one of the great paeans to city life. This collection also includes other wonderful essays, such as 'How Should One Read a Book?' and 'The Sun and the Fish'.

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found ‘the figure of their dog made me laugh so, I couldn't resist making him a Life.’ The resulting ‘biography’ combines sensuous imaginative description with sharp social comment, and brings Woolf’s unsentimental humour and insight to the fore. We see Flush as loyal confidant to Elizabeth on her sickbed at Wimpole Street, and from his jealous perspective we witness her courtship by Browning, their elopement and new life in Italy. The perfect accessible introduction to Woolf’s genius, a unique blend of fact and fiction, Flush is perhaps best read in the company of a canine companion.

This edition includes the four original illustrations by Vanessa Bell and an afterword by Margaret Forster.

Mrs Ramsay är värdinnan i familjens sommarvilla på ön Skye. Deras lille son James, vars högsta önskan är att åka på utflykt till fyren, slängs mellan hopp och besvikelse när än den ena, än den andra ger sin väderleksrapport för morgondagen. Mr Ramsay, en analytisk professor, är skeptisk. Runt värdparet kretsar bekanta på besök i sommarparadiset, däribland Lily Briscoe, en ung konstnärinna som förevigar människorna runt omkring henne genom sin pensel.

Det blir dock ingen utflykt, första världskriget kommer emellan, och först tio år senare återvänder familjen Ramsay till ön och den stundande båtutflykten – ut mot fyren.

Mot fyren är ett porträtt i miniatyr av en familj, med det är också ett porträtt av livet självt, om vad tiden och historien gör med människors drömmar och förhoppningar, och en hyllning till det som består.

'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and their summer guests on the Isle of Skye before and after the First World War. As children play and adults paint, talk, muse and explore, relationships shift and mutate. A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, it is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels. On completing it, she thought she had exorcised the ghosts of her imposing parents, but she had also brought form to a book every bit as vivid and intense as the work of Lily Briscoe, the indomitable artist at the centre of the novel.

"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and entertaining book, it was based on papers delivered at Newnham and Girton Colleges—the two women's colleges at Cambridge University. Never losing sight of her undergraduate audience, Woolf provides a brief history of women's writing in English, a scathing account of the subtle and not so subtle ways in which women have been discouraged from writing, and a recommendation for how to change matters: "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." In the process, Woolf takes on women's economic disadvantages, the underfunding of women's education, the discouragement of women from certain kinds of (lucrative) work, the ways in which women are socialized into suspicion of each other, and how women participate in their own systemic oppression. Yet, in spite of these weighty subjects, A Room of One's Own remains throughout funny, light-hearted, engaging for the novice reader while still offering "nuggets" to the worldy-wise. It is, above and beyond all else, a very model of essay writing. This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON
‘What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?’ Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity – a room of one’s own. All things denied to most women around the world living in Virginia Woolf’s time, and before her time, and since. In this funny, provoking and insightful polemic, Virginia Woolf challenges her audience of young women to work on even in obscurity, to cultivate the habit of freedom, and to exercise the courage to write exactly what we think.
ALSO IN THE VINTAGE FEMINIST SHORT SERIES:
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst

Clarissa Dalloway, a fashionable London hostess, is to give an important party. Through her thoughts on that day and through her memories of the past, her character is gradually revealed, and so are the other personalities who have touched on her life.
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Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, was a bestseller both in Britain and the United States despite its departure from typical novelistic style. Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's subsequent book, To the Lighthouse, have generated the most critical attention and are the most widely studied of Woolf's novels.
The action of Mrs. Dalloway takes place during a single day in June 1923 in London, England. This unusual organizational strategy creates a special problem for the novelist: how to craft characters deep enough to be realistic while treating only one day in their lives. Woolf solved this problem with what she called a "tunneling" technique, referring to the way her characters remember their pasts. In experiencing these characters' recollections, readers derive for themselves a sense of background and history to characters that, otherwise, a narrator would have had to provide.
In a sense, Mrs. Dalloway is a novel without a plot. Instead of creating major situations between characters to push the story forward, Woolf moved her narrative by following the passing hours of a day. The book is composed of movements from one character to another, or of movements from the internal thoughts of one character to the internal thoughts of another.
Mrs. Dalloway has been called a flâneur novel, which means it depicts people walking about a city. (Flâneur is the French word for a person who enjoys walking around a city often with no other purpose than to see the sights.) The book, as is typical of the Flâneur novel, makes the city, its parks, and its streets as interesting as the characters who inhabit them.
Clarissa Dalloway's party, which is the culminating event of the book, ties the narrative together by gathering the group of friends Clarissa thinks about throughout her day. It also concludes the secondary story of the book, the story of Septimus Warren Smith, by having Dr. Bradshaw arrive at the party and mention that one of his patients committed suicide that day.
The book's major competing themes are isolation and community, or the possibilities and limits of communicativeness, as evidenced by Clarissa's abiding sense of being alone and by her social skills, which bring people together at her parties.

New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel.Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate is forever altered. Impressionistic in style, the narrative is as inspired now as it was when it first appeared.'A remarkable achievement' New Statesman

Orlando , ce sont les mille et une vies dont nous disposons, que nous étouffons et qu'Orlando seul libère, car il lui est donné de vivre trois siècles en ayant toujours trente ans. Jeune lord comblé d'honneurs, il est nommé ambassadeur en Turquie, devient femme et rejoint une tribu de bohémiens puis retourne vivre sous les traits d'une femme de lettres dans l'Angleterre victorienne. Assoiffé de vie et de poésie, à l'image de Virginia Woolf, Orlando traverse les siècles, accumule les sensations, déploie les multiples facettes qui composent notre être. La nature de l'homme et de la femme, l'amour, la vie en société, la littérature, tout est dénudé avec un prodigieux humour. Hymne à la joie, au plaisir, ce conte fantastique révèle que la pensée créatrice est bien "de tous les moyens de transport le plus divagant et le plus fou !"

Publié en 1931, Les Vagues se compose d'une succession de monologues intérieurs entrecroisés de brèves descriptions de la nature. Chaque personnage donne sa voix et se retire dans un mouvement rythmé qui évoque le flux et le reflux des marées. "J'espère avoir retenu ainsi le chant de la mer et des oiseaux, l'aube et le jardin, subconsciemment présents, accomplissant leur tâche souterraine... Ce pourraient être des îlots de lumière, des îles dans le courant que j'essaie de représenter ; la vie elle-même qui s'écoule."

“世界上最长最动人的情书”
【编辑推荐】
★ 伍尔夫代表作，为一个雌雄同体的伟大灵魂创作的虚构传记

★ 女性主义经典，从文学视角讲述“第二性”的惊世骇俗之作

★ 影响马尔克斯、博尔赫斯、珍妮特·温森特的奇书

★ 致敬伍尔夫姐姐瓦妮莎·贝尔封面创意设计

★ 列入BBC评选出的“100部塑造我们世界的小说”，所有当今能想到的性别议题，都已在奥兰多的400年岁月里机敏狡黠、精妙绝伦地讨论过了


【作者简介】
弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（1882-1941） ，英国小说家、评论家、出版人，二十世纪伟大的现代主义和女性主义先驱，两次世界大战期间伦敦文学界的核心人物。代表作有《达洛卫夫人》《到灯塔去》《奥兰多》等。


【内容简介】
《奥兰多》的故事始于十六世纪伊丽莎白时代，终于1928年伍尔夫搁笔的“现时”，历时四百年。奥兰多本是一位贵族美少年，天真无邪，迷恋诗歌，因深受女王宠幸而入宫廷。詹姆斯王登基后，大霜冻降临，奥兰多偶遇一位俄罗斯公主，坠入情网，却遭遇了文学和爱情的双重背叛。在君士坦丁堡的一场大火之后，奥兰多变为女子，先是混迹于吉卜赛人中间，后返回英国，成为上流社会的贵妇

Over two dozen essays from bestselling author Virginia Woolf. Published in 1925, The Common Reader collects many of her greatest essays.

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CONTENTS

The Common Reader

The Pastons and Chaucer

On not knowing Greek

The Elizabethan Lumber Room

Notes on an Elizabethan Play

Montaigne

The Duchess of Newcastle

Rambling round Evelyn

Defoe

Addison

Lives of the Obscure--

I. Taylors and Edgeworths

II. Laetitia Pilkington

Jane Austen

Modern Fiction

"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights"

George Eliot

The Russian Point of View

Outlines--

I. Miss Mitford

II. Dr. Bentley

III. Lady Dorothy Nevill

IV. Archbishop Thomson

The Patron and the Crocus

The Modern Essay

Joseph Conrad

How it strikes a Contemporary

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark of modernism.

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark of high modernism, the novel centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.

Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book's many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, and the problem of perception.

In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present.

用一个女人的一天时间，写透生命与死亡、理智与癫狂，直抵伦敦的中心
【编辑推荐】
★ 伍尔夫成名作，与《尤利西斯》《追忆似水年华》并列，掀起现代主义文学浪潮的“意识流”奠基之作

★ 在题材、风格和写作方法上都有许多创新，伍尔夫以对瞬间的敏锐感知，创造了一部永恒的经典

★ 入选《西方正典》名单、《时代》杂志“1923年以来百大英语小说”榜单、布克奖评审《伟大的虚构》书单

★ 致敬伍尔夫姐姐瓦妮莎·贝尔封面创意设计

★ 影响后世无数作家，马尔克斯借鉴它写出了《百年孤独》的序章《枯枝败叶》，高分电影《时时刻刻》创作原型


【作者简介】
弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（1882-1941） ，英国小说家、评论家、出版人，二十世纪伟大的现代主义和女性主义先驱，两次世界大战期间伦敦文学界的核心人物。代表作有《达洛卫夫人》《到灯塔去》《奥兰多》等。


【内容简介】
《达洛卫夫人》出版于1925年，被誉为意识流小说的奠基之作。小说描写了女主人公克拉丽莎·达洛卫生活中的一天，详细讲述了她为在家里举行的晚宴所做的准备。不过，读者看到的并不仅仅是达洛卫夫人一天里的活动，而是她的性情，