Книги автора: Вирджиния Вулф

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind…’Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ interweaves Woolf’s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Brontë to Shakespeare’s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ‘Three Guineas’, Woolf’s most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity.This volume combines two inspirational, witty and urbane essays from one of literature’s pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality.

THIS IS HOW it all came about. Six or seven of us were sitting one day after tea. Some were gazing across the street into the windows of a milliner's shop where the light still shone brightly upon scarlet feathers and golden slippers. Others were idly occupied in building little towers of sugar upon the edge of the tea tray. After a time, so far as I can remember, we drew round the fire and began as usual to praise men­how strong, how noble, how brilliant, how courageous, how beautiful they were­how we envied those who by hook or by crook managed to get attached to one for life­when Poll, who had said nothing, burst into tears. Poll, I must tell you, has always been queer. For one thing her father was a strange man. He left her a fortune in his will, but on condition that she read all the books in the London Library. We comforted her as best we could; but we knew in our hearts how vain it was. For though we like her, Poll is no beauty; leaves her shoe laces untied; and must have been thinking, while we praised men, that not one of them would ever wish to marry her. At last she dried her tears. For some time we could make nothing of what she said. Strange enough it was in all conscience. She told us that, as we knew, she spent most of her time in the London Library, reading. She had begun, she said, with English literature on the top floor; and was steadily working her way down to the Times on the bottom. And now half, or perhaps only a quarter, way through a terrible thing had happened. She could read no more. Books were not what we thought them. «Books,» she cried, rising to her feet and speaking with an intensity of desolation which I shall never forget, «are for the most part unutterably bad!»…

The narrator, apparently a woman, begins: «Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting.» Along with her husband, the narrator experiences the sensations of a home literally alive with memories. She does not, however, try to keep the reader in suspense regarding the mysterious openings and closings of doors and windows that she and her husband witness. Despite the fact that she knows two ghosts wander through her home, she is not afraid. The ghosts, after all, mean the narrator and her husband no harm…

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind…’Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ interweaves Woolf’s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Brontë to Shakespeare’s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ‘Three Guineas’, Woolf’s most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity.This volume combines two inspirational, witty and urbane essays from one of literature’s pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality.

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeets their harsh cries sharp blades of palm trees green, too.

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeets their harsh cries sharp blades of palm trees green, too

JACOB’S ROOM, Virginia Woolf’s third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob’s childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams. This tissue of romance, though, is torn apart by the cataclysmic events of the First World War.Woolf poignantly depicts the life of Jacob through a sequence of alternating perspectives that combine letters, fragments of dialogue and the ephemeral impressions of those nearest to him. Jacob’s voice becomes the absent centre of one of Modernism’s first great novels.

"Kew Gardens" is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf. It was first published privately in 1919, then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday, and subsequently in the posthumous collection A Haunted House (1944). Originally accompanying illustrations by Vanessa Bell, its visual organisation has been described as analogous to a post-impressionist painting.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society – vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf’s characters in Mrs Dalloway.Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that haunts each person.One of Virginia Woolf’s most accomplished novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes that it tackles. The sense that Clarissa has married the wrong person, her past love for another female friend and the death of an intended party guest all serve to amplify this stultifying existence.

Monday or Tuesday is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Leonard Woolf called it one of the worst printed books ever published because of the typographical mistakes in it. Most mistakes were corrected for the US edition published by Harcourt Brace. It contained eight stories: A Haunted House / A Society / Monday or Tuesday / An Unwritten Novel / The String Quartet / Blue and Green / Kew Gardens / The Mark on the Wall.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society – vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf’s characters in Mrs Dalloway.Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that haunts each person.One of Virginia Woolf’s most accomplished novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes that it tackles. The sense that Clarissa has married the wrong person, her past love for another female friend and the death of an intended party guest all serve to amplify this stultifying existence.

Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains…

“ ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ ve keşfettiklerim üzerine pek çok şey söylemeliyim aslında: Karakterlerimin arkasındaki güzel mağaraları nasıl kazdığımı; bunun tam da benim aradığım şeyi sağladığını düşünüyorum: insanlık, mizah ve derinlik. Asıl amaç mağaraların birleşmesi ve her birinin, yaşanılan o anın içinde gün yüzüne çıkması.” Bu sözleri söylüyor kendi romanı için Virginia Woolf. Roman kahramanı Clarissa Dalloway, akşam vereceği partinin hazırlıkları ile uğraşırken yalnızca onun düşünsel serüvenine değil, rüzgârının değdiği herkesin iç dünyasına tanık oluyoruz. Tek bir günün içinde hem geçmişi hem geleceği hem de içinde bulunduğu anı anlatıyor kitabında yazar. Pek çok kişinin zihninde gezip pek çok düşünce arasında gidip gelirken bir olay örgüsünden ziyade, karakterlerin iç dünyalarıyla, nasıl duyup nasıl düşündükleriyle ilgilenen Woolf, insan ruhundaki çatışmaları, gelgitleri önemseyip zihinler arasında bir bilinç akışı köprüsü kurarak bize aktarıyor söylemek istediklerini: yaşam ve ölüm, akıl ve delilik… «Bir keresinde Serpentine’a bir şilin atmıştı, bir daha da hiçbir şey atmamıştı. Oysa genç adam bütün hayatını kaldırıp atıyordu. Onlar yaşamaya devam edeceklerdi (Partiye geri dönmeliydi; salonlar hâlâ kalabalıktı, insanlar gelmeye devam ediyorlardı.). Onlar yaşlanacaktı. Oysa önemli olan bir şey vardı; kendi yaşamında gevezeliğe boğulan, yalanlarla yozlaşan, bozulan, belirsizleşen bir şey… İşte onu koruyabilmişti genç adam. Ölüm, bir başkaldırıydı. Ölüm, iletişim kurmak için verilmiş bir çabaydı, insanlar, nedense kendilerinden kaçan öze ulaşmanın imkânsızlığını hissediyorlardı; yakınlık uzaklaşıyor, büyük sevinçler soluyordu, insan yalnız kalıyordu. Bir kucaklaşma vardı ölümde. Ama şu kendini öldüren genç adam -hazinesi elindeyken mi bırakmıştı kendini aşağıya? Beyazlar içinde aşağı inerken, bir seferinde 'Şimdi ölecek olsaydım eğer, bu benim en mutlu anım olurdu.' demişti Clarissa kendi kendine.» (…) «Ama kurtulmuştu Clarissa. Oysa o genç adam canına kıymıştı. Bir şekilde onun felaketiydi bu, utancıydı. Bu koyu karanlıkta, burada bir adamın, şurada bir kadının dibe battığını ve kaybolduğunu görürken gece elbisesi içinde öylece dikilmek zorunda kalmak da onun cezasıydı. Hile yapmış; çalmıştı aslında. Hiçbir zaman tamamıyla hayran kalınacak biri olmamıştı.»

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.’Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West, ‘Orlando’ is Woolf’s playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents, gender and identity, we follow Orlando’s adventures in love – from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London.First published in 1928, this tale of unrivalled imagination and wit quickly became the most famous work of women’s fiction. Sexuality, destiny, independence and desire – all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in women’s writing.

Предлагаем вниманию читателей один из самых известных романов английской писательницы Вирджинии Вульф, ведущей фигуры модернистской литературы первой половины XX века. Ее романы – классические произведения «потока сознания». Полный текст романа снабжен комментариями и словарем. Для студентов языковых вузов и всех любителей английской литературы.

Предлагаем вниманию читателей один из самых известных романов английской писательницы Вирджинии Вульф, ведущей фигуры модернистской литературы первой половины XX века. Ее романы – классические произведения «потока сознания». Полный текст романа снабжен комментариями и словарем. Для студентов языковых вузов и всех любителей английской литературы.