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Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeths court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed.

Vagando por las calles de Londres, Virginia Woolf mezcla la realidad y la ficción, el pasado y el presente, en un singular y brillante ejercicio de imaginación creadora.

Orlando has always been an outsider...His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world.Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey - a nobleman, traveller, writer? Man or... woman?

Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal histories coalesce into a poetic tapestry of human experience.A commercial and critical success when it was first published in 1931, and now considered by some to be Virginia Woolfs most ambitious novel, showcasing her Modernist narrative techniques at their finest, The Waves casts a visionary and lyrical light on everyday life.

QUESTO LIBRO E A LAYOUT FISSOOpera in gran parte autobiografica, pubblicata nel 1925, ha come protagonista Clarissa Dalloway, una donna bella, nobile e snob e si svolge nellarco temporale di una giornata di giugno, in cui ella ha stabilito di dare un party con alcuni amici di famiglia.Attraverso lo stream of cosciousness, una sorta di monologo interiore che rispecchia il flusso spontaneo, asintattico dei pensieri, lautrice ci presenta i caratteri dei vari personaggi e le loro storie, procedendo per improvvise associazioni di idee che riportano alla mente della protagonista sporadici frammenti di passato.Lintera societa inglese, dalla borghesia, alla nobilta ai poveri e agli emarginati, scorre cosi innanzi al lettore, con tutti i pregi e i difetti, di cui Clarissa e il prodotto perfetto.Pensieri e sentimenti seguono il flusso disordinato e spontaneo della coscienza: ne consegue una dimensione del tutto particolare del tempo,che non e quello esterno, costituito da una serie di momenti disposti in una sequenza cronologica, ma quella dellinteriorita: ricordi del passato, sensazioni del presente, proiezioni verso il futuro si mescolano in un inestricabile amalgama.Virginia Woolf ( 1882-1941) costituisce una della piu significative autrici del panorama inglese del Novecento. Tra le sue opere, si ricordano La stanza di Jacob (1922); Al Faro (1927) e Orlando (1928).

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. 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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Heralded as Virginia Woolfs greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a womans life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.

Take a stroll through London with Virginia Woolf as your guide in this beautifully illustrated book. Virginia Woolf relished any opportunity for a stroll around London. She found great pleasure in observing the city and its people - noticing the subtle details that others often miss. In this collection of stunning essays, Woolf gives us an intimate tour of her beloved hometown. We venture through unfamiliar pockets of London and revisit its most famous landmarks; we smell the salty air of the East End docks and hear the echoing sounds inside the Houses of Parliament; Woolf transports us to the bustle of Oxford Street and the more peaceful moments on Hampstead Heath.Originally published bi-monthly in 1931 by Good Housekeeping, the essays in The London Scene exhibit Virginia Woolf at the height of her literary powers and present an unparalleled and meditative portrait of an extraordinary metropolis - capturing the London of the 1930s and also the eternal city we recognise today. While it might not list the hottest restaurants and the newest boutique hotels, The London Scene gives us an amalgam of intelligence and beauty that few, if any, guidebooks provide. - Francine Prose1930s London comes alive in these six evocative essays . . . a discerning, affectionate tour of her beloved city. - Washington Post

In these essays Virginia Woolf explores the nature of the finite self and how individual experience might be relayed. She discusses the rights of women, the revolutions of modernity, social inequalit

Clarisa da una fiesta. Mientras la prepara anda por Londres y recuerda...Septimus ha vuelto de la guerra y ha enloquecido... La señora Dalloway da una dimensión universal a las cosas más pequeñas y nos deja con la sensacion de la inagotable riqueza del tejido de la vida.

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