To the Lighthouse: A special edition based on the first edition from the Hogarth Press - Brossura

Vintage Classics

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ISBN 10: 0099478293 ISBN 13: 9780099478294

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2025

Riassunto

CON INTRODUZIONI DI EAVAN BOLAND E MAUD ELLMANLa serena e materna Mrs Ramsay, il tragico ma assurdo Mr Ramsay, insieme ai loro figli e ospiti assortiti, sono in vacanza sull'Isola di Skye. Dal rinvio apparentemente banale di una visita a un vicino faro Virginia Woolf costruisce un esame notevole e commovente delle complesse tensioni e alleanze della vita familiare. Uno dei grandi successi letterari del ventesimo secolo, To the Lighthouse è spesso citato come il romanzo più popolare di Virginia Woolf. La serie Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf è stata curata da Jeanette Winterson e i testi utilizzati sono basati sulle edizioni originali della Hogarth Press pubblicate da Leonard e Virginia Woolf.

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Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture.

In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). These first novels show the development of Virginia Woolf's distinctive and innovative narrative style. It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press with the publication of the co-authored Two Stories in 1917, hand-printed in the dining room of their house in Surrey.

Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay. This intense creative productivity was often matched by periods of mental illness, from which she had suffered since her mother's death in 1895. On 28 March 1941, a few months before the publication of her final novel, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf committed suicide.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0099478293
• ISBN 13: 9780099478294
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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