Virginia Woolf
3) The waves
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
[c1931]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
297 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Innovative and deeply poetic, The Waves is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. It begins with six children--three boys and three girls--playing in a garden by the sea, and follows their lives as they grow up, experience friendship and love, and grapple with the death of their beloved friend Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing their inner lives: their...
4) Jacob's room
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman. Jacob is presented in glimpses, in fragments,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1976, c1933
Physical Desc
185 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The famous literary romance of Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning given a funny and poignant slant - being told from the viewpoint of Elizabeth's adored spaniel, Flush, who bore his mistress's virtual imprisonment as an invalid in her father's house, and shared her dramatic flight abroad and subsequent happy married life.
Flush belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and followed its mistress from her confinement in her father's house in Wimpole...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1985
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects nearly fifty short stories and sketches written over the course of Woolf's writing career and arranges them chronologically to offer insights into Woolf's development as a writer.