Virginia Woolf
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English
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....
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English
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"One of the most innovative authors and distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf examines family dynamics and the tensions between men and women in her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. A pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device, Woolf explores multiple perspectives of the members of the Ramsay family as they navigate experiences of disappointment and loss. Divided into three sections, the story...
3) The waves
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English
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me' Six friends traverse the uneven road of life together in Virginia Woolf's most unconventional classic. Bernard, Jinny, Louis, Neville, Rhoda and Susan first meet as children by the sea, and their lives are forever changed. A poetic novel written in a lyrical way only Woolf could master, these narrators face both triumph and tragedy that touches them all. Throughout...
5) The years
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Harvest book volume HB166
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English
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The Pargiters, and upper-class English family, gather together to reminisce about the major and minor events that took place in their family history.
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Harvest book volume HB264
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English
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Extracts drawn by Virginia Woolf's husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years offer insight into the art and mind of the twentieth-century author.
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Harvest book volume HB294
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English
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Selected essays, some previously unpublished touch on literary, personal, biographical, theatrical, and social subjects.
12) Melymbrosia
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Cleis Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xxvii, 350 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Original Harvest book volume HB279
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English
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Seven short stories continue or extend Virginia Woolf's ideas about the party created by Mrs. Dalloway in her landmark 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway.
18) On being ill
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Paris Press
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English
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A literary conversation about illness and care giving between patient and nurse, mother and daughter.
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Harvest book volume HB37
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Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
[1959]
Physical Desc
383 pages 21 cm
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English
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"Jacobs room" employs the conventions of a bildüngsroman to develop the expectations of a promising young man, only to pull them out from under him. Woolf illustrates what happens when a young man is denied the opportunity to excel and is instead sent to war. This book also serves as an elegy for the missing generation lost in the trenches of World War I.