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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?

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.

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

Edición a cargo de: Anne Olivier Bell. Traducción: Maribel de Juan

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening, while in her mind she is much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa re-examines the choices she has made, hesitantly looking ahead to growing old. Undeniably triumphant, this is the inspired novelistic outline of human consciousness. Poet Carol Ann Duffy and literary critic Valentine Cunningham have contributed introductions.

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women's creativity will not be hampered by poverty, or by oppression. In Three Guineas (1938), however, Woolf argues that women's historical exclusion offers them the chance to form a political and cultural identity which could challenge the drive towards fascism and war.

Novela en la que se inspiró la película Las horas, protagonizada por Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore y Nicole Kidman, La señora Dalloway relata un día en la vida de una mujer de la clase alta londinense desde el punto de vista de una conciencia que experimenta con plena intensidad cada instante vivido, en el que se mezclan sentimientos, pensamientos y emociones y se condensan el pasado, el entorno y el presente.

Obra cumbre de la narrativa de Virginia Woolf,Las olas es un clásico intemporal cuya lectura acompaña al lector a lo largo de los años como el recuerdo de un verano lejano e irrepetiblemente feliz.«V

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...

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton CollegeCambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazingpolemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fateof Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of awoman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española.En este volumen traemos a Virginia Woolf, una autora, feminista, ensayista, editora y crítica inglesa, considerada como una de las principales modernistas del siglo XX.Este libro contiene los siguientes cuentos:- El vestido nuevo- Un resumen- El cuarteto de cuerdas- El foco- La casa encantada- La duquesa y el joyero- Lunes o martes

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form the outer structure of the book, but the focus is the inner life of the characters which is conveyed in rich poetic language.

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expec

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.