Virginia Woolfová patrí k najvýznamnejším modernistom 20. storočia, je považovaná za veľkú inovátorku v oblasti anglického jazyka a jeho použitia v beletristickom diele. Vo svojich dielach experimentovala s psychologickými motívmi a rôznymi možnosťami prerušovaného rozprávania a chronológie, sústredila sa na emocionálne stavy svojich postáv. Román Vlny patrí spolu s románmi Pani Dallowayová a kniha K majáku k vrcholu jej tvorby. Vychádza práve pod značkou Odeon vydavateľstva IKAR.
Výběr z deníků významné anglické spisovatelky Virginie Woolfové... 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
The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her father’s ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South America. Despite being... Zobraziť viac
A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of... Zobraziť viac
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 ... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions Ltd: Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully... 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
'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'At a dinner party in 1922... 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
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 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
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
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
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable,... Zobraziť viac
