Woolf: 493 books

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. 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. In...

The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the genteel Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in scope, focusing instead on the small private...

Nei due saggi inediti pubblicati in questo volume, Virginia Woolf ci invita a fare “una passeggiata intorno” alle qualità delle immagini cinematografiche e delle parole. Entrambe sono in grado di mettere in moto quel processo creativo attraverso la cui contemplazione si esperisce il mondo,lo...

Bisogna tornare a camminare, ci dice Thoreau in questo piccolo saggio. Ma è l'Arte del camminare quella che con ardore appassionato chiede di coltivare, e avendo in mente ben precisi effetti. Anche in "Walking", infatti, l'autore di "Walden" e di "Disobbedienza civile"...

Erika is fresh out of college, restless, and has the house all to herself. Perfect conditions for a party. What else is a self respecting college graduate supposed to do? Laura has just arrived, pressing up against her, her blue hair brushing past Erika's cheek. With the crowd filling in, the house...

"Sono una snob?" è una selezione di saggi di Virginia Woolf, in cui l’intellettuale londinese abbandona l’artificio romanzesco e ci lascia scrutare tra le pieghe della sua vita e della sua scrittura. Accanto alla Virginia su cui si è sempre posto i riflettori, accanto alle sofferenze...

Erika is a college graduate, a partially obsessed runner, and the new member of the swim team, but that is not why she is tired. Her body aches and her mind races, but it is nothing a good shower, more time with Laura, or casually tormenting Erin can't fix. College is so much fun, especially when...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: An Old-fashioned Girl [Louisa May Alcott] The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius] The Norsemen in the West [Robert Michael Ballantyne] Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances...

In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Flower Fables [Louisa May Alcott] Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks [Horatio Alger, Jr.] The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen] The Girl of the Golden West [David Belasco] The Professor [Charlotte Brontë] The Head of the House of...

“What is Poetry?—Poetry! that Proteus-like idea, with as many appellations as the nine-titled Corcyra! Give me, I demanded of a scholar some time ago, give me a definition of poetry? “Tres volontiers,”—and he proceeded to his library, brought me a Dr. Johnson, and overwhelmed me with a definition....

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man,...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...