To the Lighthouse
Celebrate a captivating novel with this special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press.
There were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
The Ramseys have always spent their holidays at their summer house on Skye - holidays filled with noise, joy and the stuff of family life that might go on forever. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until one day the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.
To the Lighthouse was published in 1927 and was more commercially successful than any of Woolf's previous novels. Woolf herself thought it 'easily the best of my books'. The book printed three times in its first year and went on to become one of Woolf's best-loved works.
The text of this edition of To the Lighthouse is based on the original Hogarth Press edition, published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf on 5 May 1927. The dust jacket features the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press. Beneath the cover 'bright blue' boards printed in gilt take inspiration from the finish of the first trade edition.
A Room of Ones Own
Celebrate a vital work of feminism with this special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press.
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Witty, urbane and vital to this day, A Room of One's Own is a persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. It weaves together memoir, imaginative speculation and political vision to create one of the most important works of feminism of the twentieth century.
The book sprang from two lectures that Woolf delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1928. The first printing of the book the following year was as a limited edition, a joint publication between The Fountain Press of New York and the Hogarth Press. Two months later it was released to the general trade and has been an essential work ever since.
The text of this edition of A Room of One's Own is based on the original Hogarth Press edition, published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in October 1929. The dust jacket features the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press. Beneath the cover 'cinnamon' boards printed in gilt take inspiration from the finish of the first trade edition.
Mrs Dalloway
Celebrate the 100th birthday of a groundbreaking novel with this very special hardback based on the first edition published by the Hogarth Press. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party.
Over the course of one day, as she readies her house, Clarissa is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. Virginia Woolf started writing Mrs Dalloway in 1922 as a short story. Its publication in 1925 was met with modest commercial success but the novel went on to become one of the most vital works of literature of the last century.
The text of this centenary edition of Mrs Dalloway is based on the original Hogarth Press edition, published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf on 14 May 1925. The dust jacket features the original cover created by Virginia Woolf ’s sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press. Beneath the cover ‘deep rust’ boards printed in gilt take inspiration from the finish of the first trade edition.
Orlando
A férfiból nővé váló, közel négyszáz évet megélő Orlando a világirodalom egyik legkülönlegesebb alakja. Virginia Woolf hőse Erzsébet királynő korától a modernitás hajnaláig terjedő földi pályafutása során mindvégig az élet teljességét keresve pergeti napjait. Több országot érintő vándorútra indul, hogy a természet csodái és az irodalom szépségei mellett felfedezze a szerelem gyönyöreit is.
Ez az a bizonyos pillanat, mikor a nők fátylat öltenek, s a férfiak kolostorba vonulnak. Ez az a pillanat, amikor a gazdagok szétosztják kincseiket, és a boldog emberek felvágják az ereiket.
A Room of One’s Own
A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay and using powerful images and memorable thought experiments -such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not -Woolf analyses the many ways in which women have been held back throughout history and still are in her own time.
Vlny
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Román Vlny, ktorý prvýkrát vyšiel v roku 1931, patrí medzi najvýraznejšie experimentálne texty Virginie Woolfovej. Vlny sú polyfonickou fúziou vnútorných monológov šiestich hlavných postáv Bernarda, Susan, Rhody, Louisa, Jinny a Nevilla. Spoznávame ich útržkovite v intimite ich vnútorných monológov a sledujeme ich od detských čias, cez spoločné školské roky až po úlomky z obdobia ich stredného veku. Hoci pochádzajú z rôznych prostredí a majú veľmi odlišné osobnosti, jednako sa celý život schádzajú, rozchádzajú, pozorujú a porovnávajú. Veľmi dôležitou je v texte tiež postava Percivala, ktorý nikdy neprehovorí, ale ktorého prítomnosť má na všetkých šiestich silný vplyv.
Experimentálna forma a naoko chaotické striedanie hlasov ponúkajú len krehké oporné body. Čitateľ sa stráca pod rozčerenou hladinou textu, aby sa o pár strán vynoril v rytmickom unášaní vĺn života. Tie sa tvoria, pretvárajú, miznú, aby sa v okamihu znova vytvorili, pretvorili a opäť zmizli. Virginii Woolfovej sa tak podarilo zachytiť nielen prchavosť okamihu, ale aj pravidelný rytmus a prúdenie plynúceho času.
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Vlny
Neustále sa tvorím a pretváram.
Román Vlny, ktorý prvýkrát vyšiel v roku 1931, patrí medzi najvýraznejšie experimentálne texty Virginie Woolfovej. Vlny sú polyfonickou fúziou vnútorných monológov šiestich hlavných postáv Bernarda, Susan, Rhody, Louisa, Jinny a Nevilla. Spoznávame ich útržkovite v intimite ich vnútorných monológov a sledujeme ich od detských čias, cez spoločné školské roky až po úlomky z obdobia ich stredného veku. Hoci pochádzajú z rôznych prostredí a majú veľmi odlišné osobnosti, jednako sa celý život schádzajú, rozchádzajú, pozorujú a porovnávajú. Veľmi dôležitou je v texte tiež postava Percivala, ktorý nikdy neprehovorí, ale ktorého prítomnosť má na všetkých šiestich silný vplyv.
Experimentálna forma a naoko chaotické striedanie hlasov ponúkajú len krehké oporné body. Čitateľ sa stráca pod rozčerenou hladinou textu, aby sa o pár strán vynoril v rytmickom unášaní vĺn života. Tie sa tvoria, pretvárajú, miznú, aby sa v okamihu znova vytvorili, pretvorili a opäť zmizli. Virginii Woolfovej sa tak podarilo zachytiť nielen prchavosť okamihu, ale aj pravidelný rytmus a prúdenie plynúceho času.
Z anglického originálu The Waves (BERKLEY, New York 2022) preložila Simona Klimková.
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The New Dress and Other Stories
As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially made for the occasion, is clearly old-fashioned, dowdy and out of place. Everyone seems to be looking at her in dismay or mocking her appearance. Crushed at once by her insecurity, Mabel is pervaded by a sense of self-loathing, and feels utter revulsion for the social world she has tried so hard to impress.
Written in 1924 and perhaps intended for inclusion in Mrs Dalloway, a book Woolf was working on at the time, 'The New Dress' is here accompanied by most of the short stories she published in her lifetime and six other posthumously published narratives that share the milieu and some of the characters of her celebrated novel. Together, they reveal their author as one of the finest practitioners in the field of short fiction.
The Common Reader
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
In her second volume of essays, Virginia Woolf delves deeper into the delights of reading. Here, she explores the novels of Thomas Hardy and Daniel Defoe, and recounts the fascinating lives of Christina Rossetti and Mary Wollstonecraft. In ‘ How Should One Read a Book?’ she offers sage advice for the common reader, and sheds light on the lessons and pleasures literature can provide.
Published in 1932, The Common Reader: Second Series is a wise and illuminating companion collection to her 1925 First Series. Woolf’s enduring appeal and ideas continue to resonate with readers in the twenty-first century.
Deníky
Mezi lety 1915–1941 si Woolfová psala deník, poslední zápis je datován čtyři dny před její smrtí. Nepsala však denně, zpravidla jednou za několik dní. Deník nicméně poskytuje přehled o tom, co oněch sedmadvacet let dělala, o lidech, které potkávala, a zejména, co si myslela o nich, o sobě, o životě. Když zemřela, zůstalo po ní 26 svazků rukopisu. Tuto knihu tvoří výňatky z deníků, které editoval její manžel L. Woolf.
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Deníky, 3. vydání
Mezi lety 1915–1941 si Woolfová psala deník, poslední zápis je datován čtyři dny před její smrtí. Nepsala však denně, zpravidla jednou za několik dní. Deník nicméně poskytuje přehled o tom, co oněch sedmadvacet let dělala, o lidech, které potkávala, a zejména, co si myslela o nich, o sobě, o životě. Když zemřela, zůstalo po ní 26 svazků rukopisu. Tuto knihu tvoří výňatky z deníků, které editoval její manžel L. Woolf.
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The Common Reader
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, from the Greek language to the Modern Essay, to the Bronte's Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
First published in 1925, The Common Reader is a stunning work from one of the most perceptive minds of the twentieth century, a collection which continues to nurture the joys of literature and reading to this day.
Street Haunting
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
'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'.
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Plavba
První román proslulé anglické spisovatelky vyšel v roce 1915 a Woolfová na něm pracovala v době, která pro ni byla neobvykle těžká, a kdy trpěla opakujícími se depresemi. Dílo si drží tradiční románovou podobu, ale již v sobě skrývá zárodky toho, co zdobí autorčinu vrcholnou tvorbu: inovativní vypravěčský styl, vhled do ženské psychiky, téma sexuality a smrti.
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K majáku
V románe K majáku z roku 1927 sa Virginia Woolfová, jedna z najinovatívnejších autoriek a najuznávanejších literárnych kritičiek dvadsiateho storočia, zameriava na rodinné vzťahy a napätie medzi mužmi a ženami. Prostredníctvom prúdu vedomia prezentuje vnútorný svet viacerých členov rodiny Ramsayovcov pri ich zápase so sklamaním a stratou. Príbeh rozdelený na tri časti sa odohráva pred prvou svetovou vojnou aj po nej, počas návštev v letnom sídle Ramsayovcov na ostrove Skye v Škótsku.
Mrs Dalloway
'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'
In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
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