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Virginia Woolf
Významná anglická spisovateľka a esejistka Virginia Woolfová, vlastným menom Adeline Virginia Stephenová, sa narodila 25. januára 1882 v Lodnýne. Vyrastala v početnej rodine, vzdelávala sa doma najmä čítaním kníh z bohatej otcovej knižnice. Nikdy nezažila detskú spoločnosť v škole, s jej slangom, vulgarizmami a žiarlivosťou, napísala neskôr.

Virginia Woolfová v detstve trávila letá v dome s výhľadom na záliv St. Ives Bay, kde sa na skalnatom ostrovčeku týči biely maják v tvare oktogónu. Inšpiroval ju k napísaniu románu K majáku (To the lighthouse), ktorý prvýkrát vyšiel v roku 1927. Je príkladom jej prozaického štýlu voľného záznamu myšlienok. Sústreďuje sa v ňom viac na myšlienky ako na dej a dialóg.
      V mladosti viackrát trpela psychickými ochoreniami, ktoré vyprovokovali úmrtia blízkych osôb. Depresie ju prenasledovali aj v dospelosti. Po smrti rodičov žila so súrodencami v londýnskom dome, ktorý sa stal miestom stretnutí intelektuálnej skupiny bohémov Bloomsbury group s moderným pohľadom na literárnu tvorbu. Jej romány Jakubova izba (Jacob's room, 1922), Pani Dallowayová (Mrs. Dalloway, 1925), The waves (Vlny, 1931) alebo The years (Roky, 1937) predstavujú experimentálny prístup k písaniu a k románovej forme. Rozbila v nich jednotu času a vo veľkej miere využívala metódu voľného zachytávania prúdu vedomia, čím minimalizovala úlohu autora ako rozprávača a komentátora. Patrila k hlavným predstaviteľom expresionizmu a subjektivizmu vo svetovej literatúre.
      Vďaka dedičstvu sa stala finančne nezávislou. Spoločne s manželom založila v roku 1917 vydavateľstvo Hogarth Press, v ktorom vychádzali jej knihy ale aj tvorba vtedajších autorov a napríklad aj knihy Sigmunda Freuda.
      Citlivá a emotívna Virginia Woolfová spáchala samovraždu utopením 28. marca 1941 v období hlbokej depresie, do ktorej ju okrem narušeného zdravia priviedli aj okolnosti druhej svetovej vojny. Zomrela vo veku 59 rokov.
      V roku 2000 preložil spisovateľ Pavel Vilikovský román Vlastná izba (A room of one's own, 1929) od Virginie Woolfovej a získal Cenu Jána Hollého za najlepší preklad prozaického diela v roku 2000.
      Virginiu Woolfovú stvárnila Nicole Kidmanová v oceňovanom filme Hodiny z roku 2002. Kúsok veternej pláže pri britskom Cornwalle, ktorý inšpiroval Virginiu Woolfovú pri písaní románu K majáku, predali v júli 2009 na aukcii dražobnej spoločnosti Colliers CRE za 80.000 libier (približne 93.000 eur).
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The Years


The Years was written in the year 1937 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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To the Lighthouse


To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration.To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships. One of the book's several themes is the ubiquity of transience.
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Together and Apart


Together and Apart was written in the year 1944 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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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.
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Orlando (EN)


Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth-century literature. He emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversion of the 1920s. For Virginia Woolf, a leading figure of the Bloomsbury Group, Orlando was more than a fantastic flight of imagination.
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The Voyage Out (EN)


The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U. S. in 1920 by Doran. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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. 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.
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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.
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Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland


"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!"' 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ...without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front "Looking Glass kingdom" depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood. The Penguin English Library includes 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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