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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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'.
'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' Guardian
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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Jacob's Room
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
Paní Dallowayová - audiokniha
Nejznámější dílo britské autorky Virginie Woolfové vznikalo v letech 1922 až 1924. Původně se mělo jmenovat Hodiny, protože údery zvonu Big Benu prostupují celou knihou jako uvědomění si neodvolatelně uplývajícího času, pomíjivost dění. Dalším významným vnějším detailem příběhu jsou květiny, kterými autorka dokresluje povahové rysy postav. Vyprávění o jednom dni hlavní hrdinky, chystající se uspořádat večírek, paralelně doprovázejí popisy pocitů jejích přátel a známých, zároveň s pozorováním pohybu všech zúčastněných po Londýně, záznam detailů světla, změn přírody, zvuků města. Autorka o své knize prozradila, že jde současně o svět viděný očima duševně zdravých a šílených. Třebaže jedna z postav během vyprávění ukončí sebevraždou svůj život, výsledným dojmem z díla je pocit radosti ze života, a jak píše v doslovu Martin Hilský: nejhlouběji se vryje do paměti atmosféra toho nádherného červnového rána, kterým prochází drobná, prošedivělá žena s kyticí hrachorů v ruce. „Jsem paní Dallowayová,“ jako by říkala, „chyť si mě, můžeš-li.“
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A Loom of One's Own
The perfect gift for fans of classic novels, crafting and puns.
'There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my glue gun.'
This crafting celebration of literary classics will transport you and your scissors far from your kitchen table: allow your Mod Podge to smooth your way into the Gilded Age with 'The Decoupage of Innocence', or your craft knife to help you conceal an illicit eBook with 'Lady Chatterley's Kindle Cover'. Or simply create the perfect picnic accessory, to be enjoyed alongside some ginger beer with 'Five Go to Smuggler's Cake Topper'.
From a shelf made of books to paper flowers, Christmas wreaths to table decorations, A Loom of One's Own is a pun-filled celebration of crafting and writing that will appeal to book lovers or anyone who owns a glue gun.
Pani Dallowayová
„Zrejme je to môj najpresvedčivejší román… Podľa mňa som v ňom načrela do najskrytejších zákutí svojej mysle,“ poznačila si do denníka britská spisovatelka Virginia Woolfová po dokončení rukopisu Pani Dallowayová.
Kritici aj čitateľská obec sa zhodujú v tom, že kniha, ktorá prvý raz vyšla v roku 1925, je nielen autorkiným prvým majstrovským dielom, ale aj jedným z najvýznamnejších počinov európskej literárnej moderny.
Hlavná hrdinka, bohatá Londýnčanka Clarissa Dallowayová, pripravuje večierok pre svojich priateľov. V jej podrobných reflexiách okolitého sveta a v spomienkach sa súčasnosť prelína s minulosťou. V krátkom rozpätí niekoľkých hodín sa pred nami rozvinie celý jej životný príbeh. Strhujúci, novátorský štýl písania postupne odkrýva vnútorný život postáv, ktorých poprepájané osudy sú podobenstvom o tragickom údele človeka v odcudzenom svete.
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Pani Dalowayová - audiokniha
Ikonické dielo modernizmu a najznámejšie dielo Virginie Woolfovej, v ktorom autorka naplno preskúmala a kreatívne využila možnosti rôznych, na svoju dobu inovatívnych, rozprávačských techník. Pre jej postavy je charakteristická rozorvanosť a psychické problémy (postava Septima, ktorý sa po návrate z bojísk prvej svetovej vojny zúfalo zmieta vo svojej post-traumatickej stresovej poruche), či úzkosť z „nesprávnych“ životných rozhodnutí, z plynutia času a zo starnutia (pani Dallowayová).
Číta: Alena Ďuránová a Peter Čižmár
Celkový čas: 7 hodín a 31 minút
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The Waves
There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me'
Six friends traverse the uneven road of life together in Virginia Woolf's most unconventional classic. Bernard, Jinny, Louis, Neville, Rhoda and Susan first meet as children by the sea, and their lives are forever changed.
A poetic novel written in a lyrical way only Woolf could master, these narrators face both triumph and tragedy that touches them all. Throughout their lives, they examine the relationship between past and present, and the meaning of life itself.
A landmark of innovative fiction and the most experimental of Virginia Woolf's novels, The Waves is still regarded as one of the greatest works ever written in the English language.
Mrs Dalloway (EN)
".she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day." Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head.
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Oh, To Be a Painter!
Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.
Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual arts, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This newest edition in David Zwirner Books's ekphrasis series collects such essays including "Walter Sickert: A Conversation" (1934), "Pictures" (1925), and "Pictures and Portraits" (1920).
These formally inventive texts examine the connection between the literary writer and the visual artist and are innovative in their treatment of ideas about color and modern art as experienced in picture galleries. In these essays, Woolf looks at the complex and interdependent relationship between the artist and society. She also provides sharp and astute commentary on specific works of art and the relationship between art and writing.
An introduction by Claudia Tobin situates the essays within their cultural contexts.
Pani Dallowayová
„Zrejme je to môj najpresvedčivejší román… Podľa mňa som v ňom načrela do najskrytejších zákutí svojej mysle,“ poznačila si do denníka britská spisovatelka Virginia Woolfová po dokončení rukopisu Pani Dallowayová. Kritici aj čitateľská obec sa zhodujú v tom, že kniha, ktorá prvý raz vyšla v roku 1925, je nielen autorkiným prvým majstrovským dielom, ale aj jedným z najvýznamnejších počinov európskej literárnej moderny.
Hlavná hrdinka, bohatá Londýnčanka Clarissa Dallowayová, pripravuje večierok pre svojich priateľov. V jej podrobných reflexiách okolitého sveta a v spomienkach sa súčasnosť prelína s minulosťou. V krátkom rozpätí niekoľkých hodín sa pred nami rozvinie celý jej životný príbeh. Strhujúci, novátorský štýl písania postupne odkrýva vnútorný život postáv, ktorých poprepájané osudy sú podobenstvom o tragickom údele človeka v odcudzenom svete.
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