Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, The Waves
Title | Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, The Waves PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Goldman |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231115322 |
Two of Virginia Woolf's most influential works reveal the quintessence of her experimentation with narrative technique in depicting the passage of time and the nature of human consciousness. This guide includes an outline of the critical reception of Woolf's work as well as extracts from her own writing on these novels and an exploration of the birth of "Woolf studies" in the mid-twentieth century.
To the Lighthouse
Title | To the Lighthouse PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Woolf |
Publisher | Union Square Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-09-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781435172845 |
The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the births and deaths, that punctuate the individual lives of the Ramsays.
All the Lives We Ever Lived
Title | All the Lives We Ever Lived PDF eBook |
Author | Katharine Smyth |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2020-01-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1524760633 |
A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most. “Transcendent.”—The Washington Post • “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.”—The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TOWN & COUNTRY Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death—a calamity that claimed her favorite person—she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth’s story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf’s Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf’s most demanding and rewarding novel—and crafts an elegant reminder of literature’s ability to clarify and console. Braiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author. Praise for All the Lives We Ever Lived “This searching memoir pays homage to To the Lighthouse, while recounting the author’s fraught relationship with her beloved father, a vibrant figure afflicted with alcoholism and cancer. . . . Smyth’s writing is evocative and incisive.”—The New Yorker “Like H Is for Hawk, Smyth’s book is a memoir that’s not quite a memoir, using Woolf, and her obsession with Woolf, as a springboard to tell the story of her father’s vivid life and sad demise due to alcoholism and cancer. . . . An experiment in twenty-first century introspection that feels rooted in a modernist tradition and bracingly fresh.”—Vogue “Deeply moving – part memoir, part literary criticism, part outpouring of longing and grief… This is a beautiful book about the wildness of mortal life, and the tenuous consolations of art.”—The Times Literary Supplement “Blending analysis of a deeply literary novel with a personal story... gently entwining observations from Woolf's classic with her own layered experience. Smyth tells us of her love for her father, his profound alcoholism and the unpredictable course of the cancer that ultimately claimed his life.”—Time
Art Objects
Title | Art Objects PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanette Winterson |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2014-06-24 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0307363635 |
In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world--neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point of view as they are a way of life, revealing "a brilliant and deeply feeling artist at work" (San Francisco Chronicle).
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Title | The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty PDF eBook |
Author | Eudora Welty |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 652 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780156189217 |
Stories as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. These stories are honest, and vastly entertaining.
Virginia Woolf Collection
Title | Virginia Woolf Collection PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Woolf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781782125457 |
This is a compendium of the best works by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
The Waves
Title | The Waves PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Woolf |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2019-03-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781090322920 |
One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.