A világítótorony
"Woolf technikája olyan, mint egy kirakós játék, mindig más és más darabot tesz le a kép más és más szögletéből, míg összeáll a kép." "...legfőképp hangulat szükséges hozzá. Valamiféle csendes, szomorkás melankólia." "Az első 30 oldal után azt hittem, hogy nem fogom befejezni. Az utolsó 30 után pedig, hogy sosem akarom letenni. Telve van érzésekkel, cselekményről jóformán beszélni sem érdemes, csupán puritán keretként szolgál az érzelmek festette kép körül. Az egész könnyű szellőként simogatja az olvasót, mégsem egyszerű olvasmány. Meg kell rágni, hagyni kell, hogy lélekig hatoljon." "Virginia Woolf egy-egy mondatában benne van az egész világmindenség."
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Young Adult Eli Readers - English: Mrs Dalloway + CD
Mrs Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. In this Reader you will find: Information about Virginia Woolf life | Sections focusing on background and context | Glossary | Comprehension activities Tags Love | Society London 1923. The First World War has been over for five years, but the effects are still being felt all round the metropolis. A ocialite and politician’s wife prepares for one of her famous parties while somewhere else in the city an old friend contemplates the pain of past and present love, a war veteran struggles with his inner demons, and other characters live out the uncertainties and dramas of post-war English society. All touch each other in some way with their actions, directly or obliquely. Syllabus Verbs Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect Simple and Continuous, Past Perfect, Simple and Continuous, Future will and going to, Phrasal verbs Modal verbs: Could/could have (past ability), Should/ should have, Will/shall, Would/would have (habitual action/future in the past), Might/might have (future/present/past possibility), Must/must have (obligation/ past deduction), Must not (prohibition), Need not (necessity) Other: Free indirect speech, Like, If clauses (zero, 1-2-3), Had better, Gerund, As if
The Waves
I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's greatest achievement. It follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age as they experience the world around them and explore who they are and what it means to be alive. As the contours of their lives are revealed, a unique
novel is slowly unveiled. Enfolded within Woolf's lyrical and mysterious language, the mundane takes on a startling new significance while distant pasts are no less in play than the clamorous sounds and kaleidoscopic sights of the modern city. Yet precisely where the alluringly enigmatic pages of The Waves are leading, and what deeper meanings are held within its undulant chapters and shimmering interludes, are questions that have never ceased to enthral readers and critics alike. In this new e
dition David Bradshaw considers the spellbinding oddness and originality of The Waves, helping the reader to negotiate a way though this most poetic and haunting of novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorit
ies, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Mrs Dalloway
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. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Stella McNichol with an introduction and notes by Elaine Showalter. 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. 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 "Mrs Dalloway", you might like James Joyce's "Ulysses", also available in "Penguin Classics". "The book's celebrated stream of consciousness is one of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel." ("New Yorker").
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Flush
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. It is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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Orlando
Román rozhodne nie je nudným čítaním, o čom svedčí nielen množstvo postáv z rôznych krajín a časových období, ktoré hlavná postava Orlanda stretáva. 36-ročný muž navyše prechádza počas deja výraznou premenou – stane sa z neho žena. Zmena pohlavia mu umožňuje pozerať sa na veci, ľudí aj udalosti z odlišného uhla pohľadu. Kniha je plná vzťahov – Orlando náklonnosť mužov a žien niekedy opätuje, inokedy nie. Rozprávanie obsahuje aj historické súvislosti – stretávame kráľa Jakuba aj kráľovnú Alžbetu, zároveň je fantastickým príbehom, ktorý umožňuje uvažovať nad situáciou – čo by bolo, keby bol muž ženou a naopak. Rozprávanie o Orlandovi je taktiež okorenený faktom, že je obrazom Woolfovej náklonosti k anglickej poetke. Zvykne sa preto označovať ako jeden z najdlhších a najočarujúcejších ľúbostných listov v literatúre
Orlando (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '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.
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Jacobs Room (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. JACOB'S ROOM, Virginia Woolf's third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob's childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams. This tissue of romance, though, is torn apart by the cataclysmic events of the First World War. Woolf poignantly depicts the life of Jacob through a sequence of alternating perspectives that combine letters, fragments of dialogue and the ephemeral impressions of those nearest to him. Jacob's voice becomes the absent centre of one of Modernism's first great novels.
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The Voyage Out (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her father's ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South America. Despite being accompanied by her father and her aunt and uncle, Helen and Ridley Ambrose, the passage leads to Rachel's awakening, both as a woman and as an individual. As the ship is wracked by storms, she finds herself romantically entangled with Richard Dalloway, an encounter that leaves her troubled and confused. Upon arrival in Santa Marina, Rachel strikes off alone to contemplate her identity, and finds finds herself with the aspiring novelist Terence Hewet. As the emerging romance between the two is complicated by their disagreements about gender and art, another storm, and tragedy, appear on the horizon.
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Mrs Dalloway
'Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips.' On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax in Woolf's great novel of time, memory, war and the city. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.
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Saját szoba
A huszadik század száz legfontosabb könyve között van számos lista szerint ez a karcsú esszé. Anélkül, hogy egyszer is használná a "feminizmus" kifejezést, Virginia Woolf alapművet írt a nők helyzetéről, lehetőségeiről, arról a ma már - úgy-ahogy, és legalábbis a világ jelentős részén - elfogadott, de akkor még sokak szemében eretnek gondolatról, hogy a nők is érnek ugyanannyit, mint a férfiak. "Az intellektuális szabadság anyagi tényezőkön múlik. És a nők mindig szegények voltak" - írja. Vagy: "Az irodalom nagy nőalakjait kizárólag a másik nemmel való kapcsolatukban ábrázolták. De milyen kicsiny része ez egy nő életének!"
Egyesek feminista eltévelyedésnek tartották ezt az esszét, ma sokan a feminizmus alapműveként tisztelik és tanulmányozzák.
Az biztos, hogy Virginia Woolf könnyed, csevegő hangon elemzi, mi mindenre van szükség a nők egyenjogúságához. És hogy miért fontos a saját szoba és a saját kereset.
Ma, a huszonegyedik század elején megállapíthatjuk: hosszú utat tettünk meg azóta, nők is, férfiak is. Ma már nem ritkaság, ha egy nőnek van saját keresete, szobája, élete - és karrierje, sőt kiemelkedő intellektuális teljesítménye. Ennek ellenére Woolf könyve nemcsak irodalomtörténeti csemege, hanem a mai napig friss és elgondolkoztató írás - nemcsak nők, hanem férfiak számára is.
Liberty - Vintage Minis
Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing and under what conditions they might break free, to the solace derived from haunting London's streets, these essays and stories present Woolf at her most impassioned, rendering the pursuit of liberty one of life's most poetic adventures. Selected from the books A Room of One's Own, The Waves and Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Love by Jeanette Winterson; Home by Salman Rushdie; Language by Xiaolu Guo; and, Race by Toni Morrison.
Orlando
Virginie Woolfová je považována za přední inovátorku anglického jazyka a její literární práce jsou uznávané nejen kvůli svému obsahu, ale také kvůli charakteristickému stylu psaní. Ve svých knihách prozkoumala techniku známou v literatuře jako proud vědomí, která zve čtenáře do vnitřních myšlenek a pocitů postavy. Příběh Orlanda, milovaného královnou, zrazeného ruskou princeznou, patří mezí pronikavé romány britské spisovatelky. Hlavní postavou je mladý anglický šlechtic, který začíná svou životní cestu ve věku sedmnácti let za vlády královny Alžběty I. Jeho příběh ale překlenuje více než tři století a Orlando tak zažívá několik panovníků a celých historických období. Avšak jeho biologický věk dosáhne jen okolo třiceti let. Nejen to ale může čtenáře překvapit. V průběhu románu Orlando změní pohlaví a je z něho manželka a matka. Dvojjazyčné zpracování románu pomůže ve zdokonalení jazykových znalostí angličtiny. V knize najdete: - upravený text románu v jazyce originálu, - zrcadlový český překlad, - opakovací bloky a cvičení. Knihu doprovází CD ve formátu MP3, na kterém je celý příběh namluvený rodilým mluvčím.
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Mrs Dalloway
'She always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.'On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works.The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
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To the Lighthouse
'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. With a psychologically introspective mode, the use of memory, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.
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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, `A Room of One's Own' interweaves Woolf's personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister. `Three Guineas', Woolf's most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity.
This volume combines two inspirational, witty and urbane essays from one of literature's pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality.
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