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A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$18.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Essays | Series: Popular Penguins
A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over t ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Essays
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$11.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.’ One hot summer’s day in 1923, Clarissa D ...Show more
Orlando (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$11.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity. ...Show more
Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England ...Show more
Orlando: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. 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 dashin ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 his ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
$11.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
The Waves is an experimental novel by using English writer Virginia Woolf, first posted in 1931. The book has seven characters: Bernard (a story-teller), Louis (an outsider), Neville (who may also were partially based totally on Lytton Strachey), Jinny (a socialite), Susan (a mom), Rhoda (a solitary fem ...Show more
To The Lighthouse: (Vintage Voyages) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindMr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until o ...Show more