Virginia: 1900 books

The Ottoman Empire had reached the peak of its power, presenting a very real threat to Western Christendom when in 1683 it suffered its first major defeat, at the Siege of Vienna.  Tracing the empire’s conflicts of the next two centuries, The Ottoman Wars: An Empire Besieged examines the social...

The Book of Hours was a 'best-seller' in medieval and early modern Europe, the era's most commonly produced and owned book. This interdisciplinary study explores its increasing popularity and prestige, offering a full account of the Book of Hours as a book - how it was acquired, how it was read to...

女性若是想要寫作，一定要有錢和自己的房間。——維吉尼亞．吳爾芙 Thinking is My Fighting. 吳爾芙帶領我們找回女性創作與雌雄同體的身影， 預言莎士比亞的妹妹就在你我身旁出現！ 《衛報》、《時代雜誌》百大非文學作品＋《世界報》20世紀百大書籍 出版近90...

Harcourt is proud to introduce new annotated editions of three Virginia Woolf classics, ideal for the college classroom and beyond. For the first time, students reading these books will have the resources at hand to help them understand the text as well as the reasons and methods behind Woolf's writing....

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...

'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.' 'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.' Virginia...

"[Ruhl's Orlando] captures both the intellectual spirit and the literary brilliance of Woolf's work. . . . Ruhl writes with the imaginative sweep that allows Woolf's poetry to soar."—Variety "Sarah Ruhl's smart new translation [of Three Sisters] feels just right to contemporary...

‘Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown’ (1924) is an essay by Virginia Woolf, in which she analyses the state of fiction by contrasting two generations of writers.  The essay is framed as a response to an essay by novelist Arnold Bennett in which he declares that the generation of ‘Georgian’...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating glimpse, which display the gifts of a dazzling...

To the Lighthouse is a novel written by English novelist, essayist and critic Virginia Woolf in 1927. The novel is regarded as landmark of high modernism. The story goes about Ramsays visiting to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. The philosophical introspection prevails over the...

A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together.

Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of...

In provocative detail with more than one hundred illustrations, critically acclaimed author Virginia Postrel separates glamour from glitz, revealing what qualities make a person, an object, a setting, or an experience glamorous. What is it that creates that pleasurable pang of desire—the...

All the time, You used to write to me. Now, you resist me mightily. You say that you moved on. I’m left with partiality. The harsh reality Is that you knew wrong From right from the start, But you went and broke my heart. Anyway, but anyhow… I can’t be your queen Cuz I don’t mean anything.