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39 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 1989

A must have
A timeless essay not only for women. Good hard binding that will keep. It's a must have if you like English literature.

A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

2 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 2005

If you want to be a woman writer, this is a must-read!
I really didn't know much about Virginia Woolf until 2005, when I ended up living with a dear friend who taught at a local college. Like most folks, I knew Woolf was a writer of the early 1900s and I'd seen the movie "The Hours" and that was the sum total of my knowledge. One day, my dear friend handed me this book and said, "You'll like this." I was intimidated. After all, it's Virginia ...

To the Lighthouse

169 reviews
Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction)

Harvest Books, 1989

An insightful, sensitive reading.
The idea of Virginia Woolf's fiction being read aloud effectively has struck me as an impossibility. The very interiority of Woolf's style seemed to suggest that readers hear the narrative voice within themselves. This reading proves me dead wrong. Virginia Leishman's reading--and interpretation--added much to my passion for a novel I have always loved. Readers--and listeners--new to Virigina ...

Mrs. Dalloway

153 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 1990

An expanding web
This is a spellweaver of a book, slipping lucidly from minute to minute over the course of a perfect London summer's day, its gossamer threads forming an expanding web as complex and interconnected as a symphony. I came to it after reading TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, written two years later (1925 and 1927). Both books are set in summer, and both are confined to a single physical setting. But whereas the ...

Moments of Being

5 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 1985

Woolf's most beautiful autobiographical writing
People who have enjoyed Woolf's novels or diaries will surely find her essay "A Sketch of the Past" deeply moving and helpful in illuminating her other works. In "Sketch," the longest essay in this volume, Woolf recounts her earliest childhood memories--both beautiful (hearing the waves break on the shore at her family's summer home) and sinister (her stepbrother's unwelcome sexual advances when ...

Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Popular Classics)
Virginia Woolf

Penguin USA (P), 1996

The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf: Second Edition

5 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 1989

Wonderful first steps to understanding Woolf
Woolf is not typically known as a writer of short stories -- "sketches" as she called them. However, the short fiction that she wrote provides a wonderful introduction to her narrative style. The early "Mark on the Wall," "Kew Gardens," and "An Unwritten Novel" give to the reader a sense of how Woolf's technique works within a smaller package than the usual assigned Woolf reading. Her ...

Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated)

3 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 2005

A League of Her Own
This is a fine edition and value, including a helpful preface introducing the author and novel as well as an appendix (the "annotated" part) with explanations of terms, places, and designations for non-Londoners along with identifications of literary, political and historical allusions for readers who could use a little extra help. Anyone who has read James Joyce's "The Dead" will recognize ...

The Waves (Annotated)

31 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 2006

Shimmering but Difficult
English speakers everywhere should thank whatever higher power allowed for Virginia Woolf to write in their native tongue. They should, at the same time, thank her for gracing the world with books like "The Waves." Difficult? Of course, but so is existence, and no one, in any tradition, has been better at expressing the tumultuous inner space of being. This book, told as a series of interior ...

Orlando: A Biography

44 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 1973

This Book is Still Hip -- Hard to Believe Written and Published in 1928 Edwardian England [63]
Written in 1928, this book clearly sought to shock the reading public. For every repression delivered by Victorian authorities which surely hampered Woolf's freedoms, this book delivers a defiant rebuke to the same. Orlando - it states in the beginning - is a man for whom "there can be no doubt of his sex." He is rich, handsome and lives a life even Hugh Hefner may be jealous of. But, ...

The Years (Annotated)

7 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 2008

A True Masterpiece for all Time.
If an immortal were to ask me what is is like to be mortal, and live with a family and with time and with age, I would hand him this book, and feel confident that he would get a grasp of our experience. Mrs. Woolf has gathered the dimension of time in this novel through simple passages of conversation that left my heart sinking and rising. What an achievement! I read this after reading Jacob's ...

Three Guineas (Annotated)

4 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 2006

Women against war
I gave this book 5 stars, not because I really liked it, but because it's interesting. Three Guineas is VW second book that is an argument and not fiction (the first is a room of one's own). It's about how women can help prevent war, and it says a lot of stuff, one of the things being to link male vanity to aggression. It's controversial, and a lot less pleasant than a room of one's own. ...

The Mrs. Dalloway Reader

4 reviews
Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose

Harvest Books, 2004

Woolf is not easy, but this book makes her easier
Francine Prose's Mrs. Dalloway Reader makes the enigmatic and brilliant Virginia Woolf's masterpiece and bit easier for us modern readers. Since the publication of Cunningham's spectacular The Hours and the movie titled the same, Woolf's writing has undergone a renaissance, rising once again on bestseller lists everywhere. But she's STILL difficult, with the loooong sentences, endless paragraphs, ...

Between the Acts

10 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 1970

The summing up
"Between the Acts" was the last novel Virginia Woolf wrote, and it appropriately feels like a swansong; a sorrowful farewell to a country on the eve of a war that very well might have spelled its devastation. While it uses the modernist experimentation that characterized "To the Lighthouse," it is very easy to follow, but still invites several rereadings to explore its depths more fully. The ...

Flush: A Biography

11 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harcourt, 1976

A wonderful story.
One of my very favorite reads this year. This is a biography of sorts - and a fiction of sorts. It's the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spanial Flush. An absolute charmer. This is one of those volumes that can truly be read in a single setting - it is possessed of a free flowing lyric quality often absent in this writer's more cerebral fictions. Still, this isn't a slight piece ...

Orlando (Annotated): A Biography
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 2006

Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition will deepen readers' understanding of Woolf's brilliant ...

A Writer's Diary

2 reviews
Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf

Harvest/HBJ Book, 2003

Not For Writers Only - But For Female Survivors
This is one of the greatest books ever compiled/edited (here, by the brilliant Leonard Woolf-too often completely disregarded for his own unique editorial genius) after Virginia Woolf's most tragic suicide. What you will learn from this book is the spectacularly heroic efforts VW expended moment to moment, hour to hour, day to day, month to month, year to year, and decade to decade to prevail ...

Jacob's Room

19 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 1950

A fresh edition of an ever-fresh book
"Jacob's Room" was Woolf's third novel, but the first where she felt free to trace "the flight of the mind" and discard any dead conventions which did not help convey her vision. Nor is there any elaborate stream-of-consciousness, in the late Henry James or Proustian manner: the real world is set before us with effervescent sensory detail, in that terse, suggestive, and witty style which makes ...

The Voyage Out

5 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harvest Books, 2003

A True Voyage Out
This novel is not necessarily the best overall story that I have read in terms of style and content. The plot follows a simplistic, sequential pattern and the supposed climax is not as surprising as it is portrayed to be. Luckily, this is not the reason to read this novel. The Voyage Out is in no way the greatest novel ever written, but the ideas that it represents and the thought that it ...

MRS. DALLOWAY - KINDLE EDITION [ENG]

Classics-Unbound, 2008

Virginia Woolf's novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. The stories plot centers around Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess

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