On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a party she is giving that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth. Elsewhere in London Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock.
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''The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.'' Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West, ''Orlando'' is Woolf''s playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents, gender and identity, we follow Orlando''s adventures in love - from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London.
First published in 1928, this tale of unrivalled imagination and wit quickly became the most famous work of women''s fiction. Sexuality, destiny, independence and desire - all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in women''s writing.
Londres, début du XX e siècle ; Virginia Woolf rend hommage à la vie pleine de rencontres, de ragots et de tasses de thé de l'illustre londonienne, Mrs Crowe. À travers elle, c'est la ville tout entière qui est célébrée, et son tourbillon de petites et grandes histoires.
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A Room of One's Own est l'un des essais les plus connus et reconnus du XXe siècle, pour son intelligence, la finesse et la richesse de son propos, la qualité de sa prose, la force de sa rhétorique et l'actualité persistante de son message près de 100 ans plus tard.
Il aborde des questions de féminisme mais aussi, plus largement, des questions d'humanité : comment exister dans un monde bardé d'interdits et de limites ? Comment créer les conditions d'égalité que l'on sait être nécessaires à sa vie et à sa pratique artistique ? Comment se battre efficacement pour sécuriser sa place et laisser la liberté de l'évolution à son identité dans une société patriarcale, capitaliste et bien souvent, injuste ?
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A Room of One's Own est né d'une conférence que donnée par Virginia Woolf au Girton College de Cambridge en 1928 et est devenue depuis un ouvrage phare de la pensée féministe. Analysant différents aspects de la vie d'une femme ainsi que le travail d'autrices telles que Jane Austen, Aphra Behn et les soeurs Brontë, en passant par l'histoire tragique de la soeur fictive de Shakespeare, Judith, cet essai reste une affirmation passionnée de la créativité et l'indépendance des femmes dans un monde en prévalence dominé par les hommes.
Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are s
This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning's life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.
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Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf''s characters in Mrs Dalloway.
Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that haunts each person.
One of Virginia Woolf''s most accomplished novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes that it tackles. The sense that Clarissa has married the wrong person, her past love for another female friend and the death of an intended party guest all serve to amplify this stultifying existence.
The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died when he was twenty-six.
In the peaceful months before the Great War, Mrs Ramsay's numerous guests and eight children are all enjoying the long summer days on the Isle of Skye. Their feelings and thoughts form an ever-changing picture, in keeping with the unpredictable weather. Will they be able to go to the Lighthouse tomorrow ? Isn't a storm brewing ?
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Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret. Past, present and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood. In another part of London, war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness, slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation. Their experiences mingling, yet never quite meeting, Virginia Woolf masterfully portrays a serendipitous unity of inner lives, converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.
Ce coffret en anglais contient quatre nouvelles d'auteurs anglophones majeurs. Dans ces quatre histoires fantastiques, nous voyageons sous le soleil de la Méditerranée, en passant par le Roi Lapin et sa reine jusqu'à Londres. Un monde fantastique peut-il sauver le mariage ?
Humour noir, découverte de soi, représentations acides de la société et bien plus encore se retrouvent dans ces classiques britanniques !
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.
A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider... His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey - a nobleman, traveller, writer? Man or... woman? A wry commentary on gender and history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness. This clothbound Penguin edition is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert. 'I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future' Tilda Swinton
D'une modernité saisissante, ces écrits nous transportent dans leurs explorations de l'Amour :
- « The Trial Of Love », Mary Shelley.
- « After the Dance », Léon Tolstoï.
- « The nightingale and Rose » & « The Sphinx without a Secret», Oscar Wilde.
- « The Legacy », Virginia Woolf.
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Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf''s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel''s disparate cast.
A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf''s novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten.
Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
Qui aurait pu se douter que Virginia Woolf, cette figure emblématique de la littérature moderniste britannique, cet écrivain féministe et bisexuelle, aurait pu écrire un conte pour enfants ? Nurse Lugton's curtain, cette histoire merveilleuse écrite pour sa nièce en 1924, a été trouvée parmi les pages manuscrites de son Mrs Dalloway et préfigure les thèmes qu'elle développera quelques années plus tard dans son essai intitulé Une Chambre à soi. Dans une vieille demeure victorienne, Mrs Lugton est en train de coudre à la lumière d'un lampadaire, auprès d'une cheminée éteinte : elle a promis à Mme Gigham un rideau pour son salon. Tandis qu'elle est à son ouvrage, un monde onirique attend patiemment, emprisonné dans le motif du tissu. Quand, enfin, elle sombre dans un sommeil profond et que résonnent ses premiers ronflements, les animaux qui ornent le rideau ouvrent grands leurs yeux. Mais attention, Mrs Lugton peut s'éveiller à tout instant et les figer à nouveau dans les plis et replis de l'étoffe... À travers un univers foisonnant, aux couleurs franches et vives, Magali Attiogbé déploie un exotisme joyeux, tout droit sorti de nos rêves d'enfants. Un album à lire avec les parents à partir de 5 ans et à lire seul dès 7 ans.
This is the story of the Ramsays, based on Virginia Woolf's own family. Written in the stream-of-consciousness style, the book examines family relationships, the traditional roles of the sexes, the tensions and love between husband and wife and the resentment children can feel for their parents.
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics. More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness 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 expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers, which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay. If you enjoyed The Waves , you might like Woolf's Mrs Dalloway , also available in Penguin Classics. 'A book of great beauty and a prose poem of genius' Stephen Spender 'Full of sensuous touches ... the sounds of her words can be velvet on the page' Maggie Gee, Daily Telegraph
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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 betwee
Dans un format poche, ce livre rassemble des écrits de Virgina Woolf sur les arts visuels et nous offre une nouvelle perspective sur l'autrice anglaise.
On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess - sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own isolation and loneliness. Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading. This elegant Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Virginia Woolf's modernist classic features an afterword by editor and publisher Anna South. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
