La fantastica storia del bellissimo Lord Orlando, che in più di tre secoli di vita incontrerà la regina Elisabetta, amerà una principessa russa, sarà ambasciatore a Costantinopoli e, dopo un misterioso letargo, cambierà sesso, diventando donna. Il romanzo è dedicato alla poetessa Vita Sackville-West, con la quale l'autrice intrattenne una relazione, ed è possibile rintracciarvi degli elementi biografici della stessa (ad esempio Vita Sackville-West era solita frequentare la società in abiti maschili, proprio come Orlando).

One of the best examples of Woolf's modernist innovation, the story starts in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The narrative is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy, then Greece.

Gita al faro, tradotto anche come Al Faro, titolo che rispetta maggiormente l'originale To the Lighthouse, è un romanzo della scrittrice britannica Virginia Woolf, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1927. Il romanzo segue e amplia la tradizione del romanzo modernista, in cui la trama ha un'importanza secondaria rispetto all'introspezione psicologica dei personaggi.Adeline Virginia Woolf, nata Stephen (Londra, 25 gennaio 1882 – Rodmell, 28 marzo 1941), è stata una scrittrice, saggista e attivista britannica.Considerata come una delle principali figure della letteratura del XX secolo, attivamente impegnata nella lotta per la parità di diritti tra i sessi, fu, assieme al marito, militante del fabianesimo. Nel periodo fra le due guerre fu componente del Bloomsbury Group e figura di rilievo nell'ambiente letterario londinese.Le sue opere più famose comprendono i romanzi La signora Dalloway (1925), Gita al faro (1927) e Orlando (1928). Tra le opere di saggistica emergono Il lettore comune (1925) e Una stanza tutta per sé (1929); in quest'ultima opera compare la celebre citazione: «Una donna deve avere denaro, cibo adeguato e una stanza tutta per sé se vuole scrivere romanzi.»Traduttrice Giulia Celenza.

"La Chambre de Jacob" est un roman de Virginia Woolf publié en 1922 par la Hogarth Press. La grande force de ce récit réside dans la justesse avec laquelle Virginia Woolf rend compte des sentiments, de leur inconstance, et du flot capricieux de la mémoire. Replaçant l'intimité de chacun dans un cadre plus large, naturel ou urbain, elle donne ainsi à entendre la musique des âmes, sur fond de vacarme du monde.RÉSUMÉBetty Flanders, veuve, trois enfants, Archer, le second Jacob, le dernier au berceau. Virginia Woolf écrit la vie de Jacob par petites touches légères successives, comme pour une aquarelle. Les portraits de l'entourage de Jacob au long de sa vie viennent éclairer sa personnalité.

Le temps, Virginia Woolf n'a pas d'autre sujet dans ce roman publié en 1937.Apparemment, "Les Années" raconte l’histoire de la famille Pargiter sur trois générations. Pourtant, après plusieurs centaines de pages, on ne saura pas grand chose des événements de la vie de Milly, Eleanor, Edward, Morris, Rose et Martin. Loin des faits, Virginia Woolf construit un véritable roman impressionniste : tout en fragments, en petites touches. Visions d’instants qui se juxtaposent, finissent par laisser deviner quelques éléments de ces destins croisés, et surtout plongent le lecteur dans un bain de sensations assez déroutant.Ce roman est considéré comme une parfaite illustration de l’écriture du monologue intérieur – un procédé littéraire théorisé au XXe siècle et très utilisé par Joyce, Larbaud, etc. Au fil des pages, on est happé par le brouillard déformant des pensées des personnages. Tout est sentiment, rien n’est rationnel. Il ne s’agit pas pour autant du monologue intérieur d’un seul personnage : les  changements de points de vue sont au contraire fréquents, et donnent une impression de staccato qui contraste avec l’apparent respect de la chronologie, chaque partie du roman correspondant à une année."Les Années" a vraiment un charme dérangeant : on ne peut pas être indifférent à l’écriture à la fois très picturale et très musicale de Virginia Woolf, mais le malaise constant des personnages, qui ne se trouvent jamais vraiment à leur place, finit par être contagieux, donnant au lecteur le même sentiment étrange qu’ont pu avoir les spectateurs de The Hours, le film de Stephen Daldry inspiré de "Mrs Dalloway". Une expérience littéraire à faire !

Souvent considéré comme le chef-d'œuvre de Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), "La Promenade au phare" (1927) est également le plus autobiographique de ses romans, celui dans lequel elle a amplifié la technique du « flux de conscience » abordée dans "Mrs Dalloway" (1925). Sans être le premier écrivain femme à utiliser ce procédé, qui permet de reproduire le flux chaotique de la conscience avant son articulation par le langage, elle sut imprimer la marque de la féminité au modernisme. Confrontée aux mêmes contraintes que James Joyce et D. H. Lawrence, elle travailla à se libérer comme eux de la psychologie et de la chronologie.Île de Skye. La famille Ramsay, huit enfants, reçoit comme chaque année des amis. Puis la mort survient, celle de la mère et de deux des enfants, et la maison est abandonnée. Une dizaine d'années après, c'est le retour à la maison. Tout cela dominé, en toile de fond, par une promenade vers une île et son phare. Difficile de cerner les faits, ce texte est surtout une analyse des sentiments, un vagabondage des pensées de chacun des personnages du roman.

Orlando è un giovane inglese di una famiglia agiata; quando incontra la regina Elisabetta I, lei decide di portarlo a corte. Fino alla morte della regina Orlando vive come suo cortigiano prediletto; in seguito resta alla corte del successore Giacomo I.Il romanzo è dedicato alla poetessa Vita Sackville-West, con la quale l'autrice intrattenne una relazione, e il figlio di Vita, Nigel Nicholson, ha definito Orlando "La più lunga lettera d'amore della storia", ed è possibile rintracciarvi degli elementi biografici della stessa.

Gita al Faro (1927) è il ritratto corale della famiglia Ramsay che ogni estate ospita diversi amici su un’isola delle Ebridi. Virginia Woolf sembra avere una lente di ingrandimento con la quale osserva ognuno di loro, con il suo flusso continuo di pensieri, immagini, ricordi, associazioni, aspettative, paure. Una narrazione dotata di una sinestesia percettiva, un procedere ambivalente tra la fredda razionalità dell’analisi e la visione più intuitiva, e forse più femminile, della sintesi, un ampliamento di coscienza che si potrebbe definire quasi una danza tra i due emisferi cerebrali.

The novel is set in the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. The section begins with Mrs. Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next day. This prediction is denied by Mr. Ramsay, who voices his certainty that the weather will not be clear. This opinion forces a certain tension between Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, and also between Mr. Ramsay and James. 

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.

"To the Lighthouse" is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf and it is considered one of her best. In 1998, the Modern Library named "To the Lighthouse" No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph - the human capacity for change.Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of "To the Lighthouse" is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the literary technique of multiple focalization, the novel includes little dialogue and almost no direct action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations.

Clarissa Dalloway goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening. The nice day reminds her of her youth spent in the countryside in Bourton and makes her wonder about her choice of husband...

First published in 1925, “Mrs. Dalloway” is a modern novel by Virginia Woolf focused on the characters characteristics and not on the plot. Actually, "Mrs. Dalloway" is essentially plotless; what action there is takes place mainly in the characters’ consciousness. Virginia Woolf was concentrated on showing us the mental states her characters found themselves in.The novel examines one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class Londoner married to a member of Parliament. The novel addresses the nature of time in personal experience through two interwoven stories, that of Mrs. Dalloway, preparing for a party, and that of the mentally damaged war veteran Septimus Warren Smith.While never abandoning her omniscient third-person voice, Woolf enters the consciousness of seemingly unconnected characters and brings their feelings to the surface. The characters are connected, and the narrative shifts from one to another, by means of shared public experiences, such as an exhibition of skywriting.

First published in 1919, Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel, "Night and Day," is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience."Night and Day" is set in Edwarian Lodon. Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, Margaret, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her own father's life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences."Night and Day" examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. Dialogue and descriptions of thought and actions are used in equal amount, unlike in Woolf's later book, "To the Lighthouse."  

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The work is distinguished by its innovative narrative style and the focus on feminine consciousness and sexuality.

Adeline Virginia Woolf ( 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. In this book, we have collected Woolf's five best novels : A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves. We consider them to be the best because of the great success they've had. A well-structured, easy-to-read book, suitable for any e-reader, tablet or computer. The reader will go from one novel to another one as quick as possible. In this collection, we have also included a detailed biography of Virginia Woolf.

Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel addresses Clarissa's preparations for a party she will host that evening. With an interior perspective, the story travels forward and back in time and in and out of the characters' minds to construct an image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure. In October 2005, Mrs Dalloway was included on Time's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since Time debuted in 1923. Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.  

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf. Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge and into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy and then Greece.

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf. Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf's, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break away from the demands of the previous generation without disowning it altogether. Katherine must decide whether or not she loves the iconoclastic Ralph Denham; Woolf seeks a way of experimenting with the novel for that still allows her to express her affection for the literature of the past. This is the most traditional of Woolf's novels.

“Gita al Faro”, il cui titolo originale è “To the Lighthouse”, fu pubblicato nel 1927 e rappresenta uno dei punti più alti della letteratura del Novecento. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) ci lascia un romanzo profondo e indimenticabile che parte da un episodio in apparenza insignificante ma che in realtà descrive l’anima di un’intera famiglia e di un gruppo di amici, i loro pensieri e le loro emozioni. Durante una vacanza estiva che la famiglia Ramsay sta trascorrendo sull'Isola di Skye si discute di una gita che potrebbero fare il giorno successivo. Per James, il figlio minore, il faro rappresenta una meta misteriosa e sconosciuta, un sogno. Solo dopo dieci anni, però, si ritroveranno per realizzare quel desiderio. L’anima di ognuno è un universo intero, e in esso affiorano conflitti e alleanze, sentimenti ed emozioni impossibili da comunicare. Ciò che colpisce sopra ogni cosa, però, è l’assenza, quella di una madre e di una moglie; un vuoto che stordisce, assorda. Il ricordo dell’infanzia e delle persone che non ci sono più diventa un vero e proprio faro che indirizza i loro pensieri. “To the Lighthouse” è un romanzo sperimentale che si regge sulla memoria ed esplora l’animo umano.

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers" clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you. In the streets of London where beauty goes unregarded, eccentricity must pay the penalty, and it is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand. One afternoon in the beginning of October when the traffic was becoming brisk a tall man strode along the edge of the pavement with a lady on his arm. Angry glances struck upon their backs. The small, agitated figures—for in comparison with this couple most people looked small—decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with despatch-boxes, had appointments to keep, and drew a weekly salary, so that there was some reason for the unfriendly stare which was bestowed upon Mr. Ambrose"s height and upon Mrs. Ambrose"s cloak. But some enchantment had put both man and woman beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his case one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed stonily straight in front of her at a level above the eyes of most that it was sorrow. It was only by scorning all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently painful. After watching the traffic on the Embankment for a minute or two with a stoical gaze she twitched her husband"s sleeve, and they crossed between the swift discharge of motor cars. When they were safe on the further side, she gently withdrew her arm from his, allowing her mouth at the same time to relax, to tremble; then tears rolled down, and leaning her elbows on the balustrade, she shielded her face from the curious. Mr. Ambrose attempted consolation; he patted her shoulder; but she showed no signs of admitting him, and feeling it awkward to stand beside a grief that was greater than his, he crossed his arms behind him, and took a turn along the pavement. The embankment juts out in angles here and there, like pulpits; instead of preachers, however, small boys occupy them, dangling string, dropping pebbles, or launching wads of paper for a cruise. With their sharp eye for eccentricity, they were inclined to think Mr. Ambrose awful; but the quickest witted cried "Bluebeard!" as he passed. In case they should proceed to tease his wife, Mr. Ambrose flourished his stick at them, upon which they decided that he was grotesque merely, and four instead of one cried "Bluebeard!" in chorus.

Jacob"s Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed with a void in place of the central character if, indeed, the novel can be said to have a "protagonist" in conventional terms. Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.