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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.

As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold.

Considerada la mejor obra de Virginia Woolf, Las olas es una novela revolucionaria y de original bellezaDesde su publicación en 1931, Las olas ha sido considerada una de las obras capitales del siglo XX, tanto por la original belleza de su prosa como por la perfeccion de su revolucionaria tecnica, 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.

Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I's court favourites, is the object of many ladies' attentions but, after suffering heartbreak, he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any thoughts of marriage. Having obtained a ambassadorial post in Constantinople, Orlando falls into a long sleep and wakes up suddenly transformed into a woman. Also blessed with the gift of never ageing, she embarks on adventurous travels throughout Europe and the following centuries, observing what it is like to be female.

Tres relatos de Virginia Woolf son los que componen este libro y que muestran lo que a ella le gustaba denominar momentos de existencia. En ellos, personajes y acciones quedan supeditados a imágenes poeticas, alejadas de las banalidades de la vida. En "Kew Gardens" ambientado en el fabuloso jardin botanico de Londres, nos introduce, como diria T. S. Eliott, en "un monton de imagenes rotas" que van desde el movimiento perezoso de un caracol a las conversaciones de los paseantes por el jardin. En "Una casa encantada", publicado por primera vez en la antologia Monday or Tuesday, reescribe un tradicional cuento de fantasmas. Una pareja recibe la visita de unos espectros que ponen en evidencia el mundo de lo superficial. En el tercer cuento, "La marca en la pared", hace uso del monologo escrito en primera persona para hacernos volar de un recuerdo a otro, teniendo como origen la marca en la pared de su habitacion. Acompañan a estos magnificos cuentos las ilustraciones de Elena Ferrandiz, que consiguen sumergirnos en el personal mundo de Virginia Woolf a traves de un trabajo lleno de metaforas y simbolos maravillosos.

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?

Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational privileges of her male contemporaries. She was perhaps better able, then, to address a 'common reader' in this wide-ranging collection of essays. With all the imagination and gaiety that are the stamp of her genius, she turns from medieval England to tsarist Russia, and subjects Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists to her wise, acute and entertaining scrutiny.Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Nancy Mitford, Joseph Conrad, Montaigne, Defoe and

He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. Here she turns her brilliant eye on novels and poetry from John Donne to Christina Rossetti and Mary Wollstonecraft as well as many others. This is an informal, informative and witty celebration of our literary and social heritage by a writer of genius.

Al Faro esprime con straordinaria pienezza le caratteristiche della narrativa di Virginia Woolf, quel senso di frammentazione, di dissoluzione della realta esterna che puo essere ricostruita soltanto partendo dalla realta interna dei personaggi, dai pensieri, dalle sensazioni, dalle emozioni, dai ricordi che consapevolmente o inconsapevolmente attraversano la loro coscienza. Articolato in due "momenti" complementari e opposti, il romanzo si esprime dapprima nel tempo dell'attesa, della possibilita, della fluidita; quindi nel tempo della realizzazione, della conclusivita, della concretezza, quando la gita al faro annunciata un decennio prima finalmente si compie, ma in circostanze profondamente mutate.

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.

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Le roman, publié en 1925, raconte la journée d'une femme élégante de Londres, en mêlant impressions présentes et souvenirs, personnages surgis du passé, comme un ancien amour, ou membres de sa famille et de son entourage. Ce grand monologue intérieur exprime la difficulté de relier soi et les autres, le présent et le passé, le langage et le silence, le mouvement et l'immobilité. La qualité la plus importante du livre est d'être un roman poétique, porté par la musique d'une phrase chantante et comme ailée. Les impressions y deviennent des aventures. C'est pourquoi c'est peut-être le chef-d'oeuvre de l'auteur - la plus grande romancière anglaise du XXe siècle.