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The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds itself caught in a web of alliances and dangerous warmongering. To help tip the balance in their favour Britain aims to draw Russia into an alliance with them instead of Germany. Czar Nicholas's nephew, Prince Aleksei, is sent to London for secret naval talks with Lord Walden. A Play for Power Walden has a personal connection to Aleksei; his wife Lydia, is Aleksei's aunt. But they are not the only ones interested in his arrival, including Walden's daughter Charlotte, wilful, idealistic and with an awakening social conscience, Basil Thompson, head of Special Branch, and Felix Kschessinky, a ruthless Russian anarchist. A World at War With the British desperately needing a signed treaty and the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the destinies of these characters become inextricably linked as the final private tragedy which threatens to shatter the Waldens' complacency is acted out.

As his tale begins Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth s court By the close he will have transformed into a modern 36 year old woman and three centuries will have passed

Texte culte et lecture féministe incontournable, vibrant plaidoyer pour la cause des femmes.

One of the most distinguished critics and innovative authors of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published two novels before this collection appeared in 1921. However, it was these early stories that first earned her a reputation as a writer with "the liveliest imagination and most delicate style of her time." Influenced by Joyce, Proust, and the theories of William James, Bergson, and Freud, she strove to write a new fiction that emphasized the continuous flow of consciousness, times passage as both a series of sequential moments and a longer flow of years and centuries, and the essential indefinability of character.

Virginia Woolf: Orlando Geschichte eines Lebens || Fur die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert und mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung. Voll verlinkt, mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und zahlreichen Erklarungen zeittypischer Ausdrucke. |Virginia Woolf schickt ihren Helden auf einen Parforceritt durch Raum, Zeit, soziale Milieus und sogar Geschlechterrollen. Geboren im 16. Jahrhundert als Adeliger in London, verschlagt es Orlando nach Konstantinopel. Dort erwacht er nach mehrtagigem Schlaf als Frau und setzt sein Leben in weiblicher Rolle fort. Durch diese radikale Anderung gewinnt er/sie erhellende Einsichten in die Beziehung der Geschlechter, die Normalsterblichen verborgen bleiben. Zuruck in London wir schreiben inzwischen das spate 19. Jahrhundert wird sie zur erfolgreichen Schriftstellerin. Im Jahr 1928, das Buch endet hier, sehen wir die nun etwa 300jahrige Orlando, auerlich eine Frau von Mitte 30, die Fahrt in ihrem neuen Automobil genieen. |Orlando ist ein Meisterwerk, angesiedelt zwischen Schelmenroman und Sozialstudie. Hier kann Virginia Woolf ihrer unbandigen schriftstellerischen Phantasie freien Lauf lassen, gepaart mit elegant leichtem Schreibstil, der die unglaubliche Geschichte wie selbstverstandlich dahinflieen lasst.

"The London Scene" is a collection of essays written by one of London''s most acclaimed writers. Virginia Woolf was born and lived much of her life in the city, using it as the backdrop for many of her works. She was a fervent walker and her keen eye keeps pace as she strides across the city that she loved above all others."The London Scene" begins in the docks of the east and flows against the Thames tide westwards, following the commercial pulse of the city from the disembarkment of goods at Tilbury to the crowds of shoppers on Oxford Street, before winding on majestically to the grand buildings of the City and Westminster.Virginia Woolf pauses to admire the splendour of St. Paul''s and the austerity of Westminster Abbey. She visits the spartan houses of literary men, and concludes her walk with a wry look at the House of Commons. With specially commissioned illustrations by Suzanne Barton.

Esta novela es un capítulo imprescindible en la historia de la novelística contemporánea, el punto más alto de la stream of consciousness woolfiana, donde se hacen patentes las proximidades y diferencias respecto de Faulkner y Joyce. La mas celebre traduccion, ademas, de Carmen Martin Gaite. Durante una excursio a un faro, los miembros de la familia Ramsay se muestran al lector en toda su complejidad y se presentan eredados en una trama de sentimientos cruzados y contradictorios en la que la figura paterna ocupa un lugar central pero problematico (objeto especialmente del rencor del hijo).Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) es sin duda una de las novelistas britanicas mas influyentes del siglo XX, tanto por la novedad de los temas que aborda en sus obras como por la composicion formal de las mismas. Fundadora con su marido Leonard Woolf de la editorial Hogarth Press, donde publicarian a Rilke, Svevo o Freud, entre otros, no tardo en convertirse en uno de los nombres mas sobresalientes del llamado ?Grupo de Bloomsbury? (Roger Fry, John M. Keynes, Vanessa Stephen, E. M. Foster...). Despues de dedicarse por un tiempo a la critica literaria, en 1915 inicio una carrera como narradora marcada por la voluntad de liberar la prosa inglesa del realismo y la uniformidad en que se habia estancado, al tiempo que investigaba...

Las memorias y reflexiones íntimas de Virginia Woolf en su único libro autobiográfico "Virginia Woolf es dios, nadie ha escrito mejor."Milena Busquets "Igual que James Joyce y Marcel Proust dominó el manejo del flujo de conciencia de los personajes, pero ella añade un valor extra, la sensibilidad femenina."Maria Vargas Llosa 80 ANIVERSARIO DE VIRGINIA WOOLF Publicada postumamente en 1976, Momentos de vida es la unica obra autobiografica de Virginia Woolf. Los seis textos que conforman el libro fueron encontrados a la muerte de su marido, Leonard Woolf, en su archivo, y constituyen un viaje cronologico por los momentos algidos de la vida de la gran escritora: desde su infancia y su adolescencia hasta los origenes del grupo de Bloomsbury, pasando por el despertar de su vocacion o el analisis de su relacion con la Historia. Un magnifico memorial a un mundo desaparecido: el que precedio a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Reseña:"De lejos, el libro mas importante sobre Virginia Woolf, publicado desde su muerte."Angus Wilson, The Observer

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a grand party that evening.As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are in the past, and she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth; her romance with Peter Walsh, now recently returned from India; and the friends of her youth. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock. As the day draws to its end, his world and Clarissa's collide in unexpected ways.

The novel centres around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed with a void in place of the central character if, indeed, the novel can be said to have a protagonist in conventional terms.

Una de las novelas más esenciales y terribles que se han escrito sobre la inminencia de la II Guerra Mundial.80 ANIVERSARIO DE VIRGINIA WOOLF«Igual que James Joyce y Marcel Proust dominó el manejo de

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The collected BBC dramatisations of the fiction of Virginia Woolf, with star casts including Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson, Laura Fraser, Robert Glenister and Fenella Woolgar.This collection includes:The Voyage OutA motley group of genteel adventurers board a ship bound for South America in 1913, among them Helen Ambrose and her niece Rachel Vinrace. Starring Laura Fraser, Rebecca Johnson and Bertie Carvel.Night and DayKatherine and Mary are challenged over their assumptions about love in pre-First World War London. Starring Kristen Scott-Thomas.Mrs DallowaySet on a single day in June, Virginia Woolf's classic novel follows Clarissa Dalloway as she makes final preparations for an important party. Starring Fenella Woolgar. To the LighthouseThe story of the Ramsay family holidaying in Scotland before the First World War, and their planned expedition to a lighthouse nearby. Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson and Robert Glenister. OrlandoOrlando was born in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and lived into that of George V. He entered life as a boy and she left it as a woman. Starring Jennie Stoller and David McAlister.The WavesLouis, Bernard, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda struggle to come to terms with life after Percival and, in the process, learn what he really meant to each of them. Starring Geraldine James and Anna Massey.

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 biographies, 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters.Contents:THE NOVELSThe Voyage Out (1915)Night and Day (1919)Jacobs Room (1922)Mrs. Dalloway (1925)To the Lighthouse (1927)The Waves (1931)The Years (1937)Between the Acts (1941)THE BIOGRAPHIESOrlando: a biography (1928)Flush: a biography (1933)Roger Fry: a biography (1940)THE STORIESMonday or Tuesday (1921)A Haunted House, and other short stories (1944)Mrs Dalloways Party (1973)The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)THE ESSAYSThe Common Reader I (1925)A Room of Ones Own (1929)On Being Ill (1930)The London Scene (1931)The Common Reader II (1932)Three Guineas (1938)The Death of the Moth, and other essays (1942)The Moment, and other essays (1947)The Captains Death Bed, and other essays (1950)Granite and Rainbow (1958)Books and Portraits (1978)Women And Writing (1979)383 Essays from newspapers and magazines (see update v.3.0)AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGA Writers Diary (1953)Moments of Being (1976)The Diary Vols. 15 (1977-84) (see updates v.4.0, v.5.0, and v.6.0)The Letters Vols. 16 (1975-80) (see update v.7.0, v.8.0, v.9.0, and v.10.0)The Letters of V.W. and Lytton Strachey (1956) (see update v.8.0)A Passionate Apprentice. The Early Journals 1887-1909 (1990) (see update v.10.0)THE PLAYFreshwater: A Comedy (both versions) (1976)