Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, "Between the Acts" is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores how a community is formed (and scattered) over time. The pageant, a series of scenes from English history, and the private dramas that go on between the acts, are closely interlinked. Through the figure of Miss La Trobe, and author of the pageant, Virginia Woolf questions imperialist assumptions and, at the same time, re-creates the elusive role of the artist.
Virginia Woolf Introduction, notes and activities by Brian Hodgkiss Virginia Woolfs first truly modernist novel is a portrait of post-Edwardian England: hopeful, yet uncertain after the trauma of World War One. Written as a flow of thoughts, memories and feelings, this day-in-the-life of a fashionable society hostess finally broke free from the form of the traditional English novel and established Woolf as a true writer of genius. Sales restricted to certain countries.
Desde 1931, año de su publicación, Las olas ha sido considerada una de las obras capitales del presente siglo, tanto por la original belleza de su prosa como por la perfección de su revolucionaria técnica, y, con el paso de los años, su influencia sobre la literatura contemporanea ha ido acrecentandose. La novela desarrolla, al compas del batir de las olas en la playa, seis monologos interiores, a veces discrepantes y aislados, otras veces casi en coloquio concordante, en los que se formulan, desde su infancia hasta sus ultimos años, seis vidas multiples y dispares.
From Victorian England to fifteenth- century Norfolk, and pre-war London to Mount Pentelicus, Virginia Woolf offers a series of fictional impressions of women finding their place in the world around them. At once exquisitely drawn and brilliantly haunting, these snapshots of life are a remarkable testament tothe narrative powers of one of Britains best-loved novelists, and an insight into some of her perennial interests namely her fascination with the role of the biographer, the literature of Greece and the loneliness of early twentieth-century London.This collection of five of Virginia Woolfs earliest stories explores the role of women in society, and hints at the stylistic form that would go on to define her later writing.
