{"title":"Virginia Woolf","description":"Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out,  in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own (1929).","products":[{"product_id":"mrs-dalloway-the-first-edition-text-with-the-authors-revisions-paperback","title":"Mrs. Dalloway: The First-Edition Text with the Authors Revisions - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf's most famous novel, now in a new edition that reflects all of the author's revisions to the work. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the definitive edition of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, complete with a cover inspired by the original Hogarth Press design to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the original 1925 publication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, Virginia Woolf's tale of a day in the life of one upper-middle-class woman, is of the best known and most celebrated novels of the twentieth century. It is a simple novel, on the one hand, in which its protagonist goes about London preparing for the party she will hold in the evening. It is also a complex novel, one that interweaves Mrs. Dalloway's story with those of a shell-shocked veteran, of her old lover, of her unhappy teenage daughter. Together, they form a haunting, mesmerising picture of individual loneliness and post-World War I British society. As Virginia Woolf wrote of it: \"I want to give life \u0026amp; death, sanity \u0026amp; insanity; I want to criticise the social system, \u0026amp; to show it at work, at its most intense.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition of \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, published to mark the centennial of its original appearance, will be followed by new editions of \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e in celebration of their respective centenaries. All featuring specially commissioned covers that pay tribute to the original designs by Hogarth Press, these editions are meticulously and sensitively edited by scholar and literary critic Edward Mendelson, and are the first to reflect the full range of revisions Virginia Woolf made to her three greatest novels.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101194522847,"sku":"9781681379982","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lMboAJUtTt9781681379982.webp?v=1781068444"},{"product_id":"a-room-of-ones-own-paperback","title":"A Room of One's Own - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/em\u003e, Virginia Woolf postulates that women faced barriers in literature and society during her day. 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Woolf uses the postponement of a family trip to a nearby lighthouse to flush out the characters and the everyday discomforts and joys of existence. The novel explores the themes of time, memory, and the passage of life, as well as the inner conflicts in relationships and families. 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To have written them is to have surpassed, in this one respect, almost every contemporary novelist.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cem\u003eThe Saturday Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realization of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time.\" -Margaret Drabble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love. 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