An Unwritten Novel
Saving fleeting snapshots, astutely observing strangers, recording meticulous detail: modernist author Virginia Woolf knows how to capture a moment.In 'Kew Gardens' and 'An Unwritten Novel', everyday life becomes a powerful stage for dreaming and storytelling. Woolf’s trademark stream-of-consciousness writing style is showcased in 'The Mark on the Wall' where a nameless narrator zeroes in on their environment, becoming more and more unnerved by a seemingly inexplicable dark stain.'The New Dress' and 'The Looking Glass' are brilliantly observed portraits of a few choice instants. In the former, the party dress Mabel Waring decides to wear leaves her feeling uncertain and doubtful, but she resolves to change for the better. In each of these seven stories, Woolf explores the nuanced events which make up daily life and maps how they intertwine with our thoughts and emotions.This series of pocket-sized paperbacks celebrates the art of the short story and marks Macmillan Collector's Library's 10th anniversary. Each contains a curated selection of short stories from a literary giant: Katherine Mansfield, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alice Dunbar Nelson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Rabindranath Tagore.
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Kew Gardens
In a single afternoon's walk, Virginia Woolf captures the infinite life of a garden...
A couple pause among the flowerbeds, their thoughts drifting apart. A woman's mind fixes on a small, troubling mark on the wall. A chance meeting becomes an imagined life, rich with longing and regret. In six luminous, experimental stories, Virginia Woolf remakes the short story as a space of transcendence. Moving fluidly between inner lives and outward scenes, Kew Gardens captures moments of consciousness as they shimmer, fracture and pass, revealing the beauty and strangeness of everyday existence.
Includes the stories: Kew Gardens, The Mark on the Wall, An Unwritten Novel, Monday or Tuesday, The String Quartet and Blue & Green
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Mrs Dalloway
Set in London during the aftermath of the First World War, the elegant Clarissa Dalloway is putting the finishing touches on her house as she prepares to host a high-society party. Meanwhile, Septimus Smith struggles with the after-effects of shell-shock. At first glance, the two could not appear to be any more different - Dalloway is a middle-aged woman at home in the high-flying lifestyle of the prosperous upper classes, while Smith is poor, young and traumatised. And yet the two narratives brilliantly interweave to tell a haunting tale of life in interwar London.
This elegant pocket-sized gift edition has real collector's appeal; featuring the classic; unabridged text; a facsimile of Woolf's signature on the title page; gold gilded page edges and beautifully designed endpapers. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series this book makes wonderful gift for any lover of classic literature.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautiful pocket editions of iconic literary works from across history. Presented with striking foil cover embossing, gilded page edges, and deluxe ivory paper, these editions make the perfect gift for lovers of classic literature.
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Orlando
Virginia Woolf's dazzling, time-defying novel of love, identity and transformation, brought to life with breathtaking interior art by Varvara Alay.
Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.
Orlando is a charming nobleman, a poet, and a vessel through which truth is exposed. Born in Elizabethan England, his life spans across centuries. He observes the shifting landscapes of history and time, noting these changes as they come. But one morning, he transforms into a woman.
What begins as a fantastical romp through time becomes a profound meditation on gender, freedom and the fluidity of identity. With wit, lyricism and dazzling imagination, Orlando crafts a gender-defying portrait of a soul unbound by society's labels - a bold rebellion against life's binaries that remains radically modern today.
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Orlando
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's delightful, boundary-pushing classic, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
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Mrs Dalloway
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's great masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
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.
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Mrs Dalloway
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.
On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable, worldly, wealthy and 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.
Parties and Passions, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Great Gatsby are also available in this Macmillan Collector's Library series of gorgeous paperbacks featuring the greatest parties and the wildest passions in literature.
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Orlando
Audiobook Orlando, written by Virginia Woolf. Published in 1928, Orlando is a fictional biography that spans several centuries and follows the protagonist, Orlando, an Elizabethan nobleman who undergoes a mysterious gender transformation.
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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.
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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.
Orlando
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.”¦“Orlando, teljes meztelenségében, mozdulatlanul maradt. Mióta a világ áll, nem láttak ilyen szép halandót. Testi formái a férfierőt a női bájjal egyesítették.”¦“Orlando is osztotta az írók furcsa előítéletét, akik azt hiszik, hogy ha egyszer leírtak egy mondatot, már nincsenek egyedül.”¦“A főbb vádpontok s ténymegállapítások a következők voltak: először, hogy ő rég meghalt, és így nem birtokolhat semmit; másodszor, hogy asszony, ami körülbelül ugyanannyit jelent; harmadszor, hogy angol herceg, aki egy táncosnőt vett nőül, név szerint Rosina Pepitát.”¦"A kézirat toldott-foldott, gondos kézimunkához hasonlított. Orlando visszalapozott a legelső oldalra, s megnézte a gyermeki kézzel odafirkantott évszámot: 1586. Tehát közel háromszáz esztendeje dolgozik rajta. Ideje, hogy befejezze."
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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
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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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.
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