Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions... Zobraziť viac
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for ... Zobraziť viac
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, ... Zobraziť viac
Virginia Woolf's last novel, in equal parts a triumphant celebration and witty mockery of 'Englishness', Between the Acts is edited by Stella McNichol, with an introduction and notes by Gillian Beer in Penguin Modern Classics... Zobraziť viac
First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman,then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time.Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this... Zobraziť viac
'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... Zobraziť viac
Vintage Classics: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class... Zobraziť viac
Every summer, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland’s idyllic Isle of Skye, surrounded by artist friends. They expect these summers will go on forever, but with the arrival of World War I... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions Ltd: Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully... Zobraziť viac
The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her father’s ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South America. Despite being... Zobraziť viac
First published in 1921 as part of her ground-breaking short-story collection Monday or Tuesday, Kew Gardens follows the thoughts of a set of characters walking past a flower bed in the royal botanic garden on a hot July day. Zobraziť viac
Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a... Zobraziť viac
Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of great literature... Zobraziť viac
One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time... Zobraziť viac
