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Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: classics, wordsworth, lighthouse
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-12-05
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1853260916
ISBN-13: 9781853260919

To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf’s novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children’s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Oxford University Pre
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, lighthouse
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $28.35
ISBN-10: 0192805606
ISBN-13: 9780192805607

’I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it’ Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and their summer guests on the Isle of Skye before and after the First World War. As children play and adults paint, talk, muse and explore, relationships shift and mutate. A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, it is the most accomplished of all Woolf’s novels. On

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
Keywords: room, jacob
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2010-02-22
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1604441321
ISBN-13: 9781604441321

Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob’s childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob’s life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy, then Greece. Jacob eventually dies in the war and in lieu of a description of the death scene, Woolf describes the empty room that he

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: diary, writer
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2003-03-31
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0156027917
ISBN-13: 9780156027915

An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Transaction Large Print
Keywords: day, night
Number of Pages: 582
Published: 2010-01-11
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1412811600
ISBN-13: 9781412811606

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Keywords: bold, large, easyread, room, jacob
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2009-02-19
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 1442934093
ISBN-13: 9781442934092

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Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: own, one, room
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1989-12-27
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0156787334
ISBN-13: 9780156787338

Originally published in 1929, A Room of One’s Own eloquently states Woolf’s conviction that in order to create works of genius, women must be freed from financial obligations and social restrictions.
  
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