Virginia Woolf
1) The waves
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Language
English
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Description
There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me' Six friends traverse the uneven road of life together in Virginia Woolf's most unconventional classic. Bernard, Jinny, Louis, Neville, Rhoda and Susan first meet as children by the sea, and their lives are forever changed. A poetic novel written in a lyrical way only Woolf could master, these narrators face both triumph and tragedy that touches them all. Throughout...
3) The years
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Series
Harvest book volume HB166
Language
English
Description
The Pargiters, and upper-class English family, gather together to reminisce about the major and minor events that took place in their family history.
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB264
Language
English
Description
Extracts drawn by Virginia Woolf's husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years offer insight into the art and mind of the twentieth-century author.
Author
Series
Original Harvest book volume HB279
Language
English
Description
Seven short stories continue or extend Virginia Woolf's ideas about the party created by Mrs. Dalloway in her landmark 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway.
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Series
Harvest book volume HB37
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
[1959]
Physical Desc
383 pages 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jacobs room" employs the conventions of a bildüngsroman to develop the expectations of a promising young man, only to pull them out from under him. Woolf illustrates what happens when a young man is denied the opportunity to excel and is instead sent to war. This book also serves as an elegy for the missing generation lost in the trenches of World War I.
15) On being ill
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Publisher
Paris Press
Language
English
Description
A literary conversation about illness and care giving between patient and nurse, mother and daughter.
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB294
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1974, ©1942]
Physical Desc
viii, 248 pages 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Selected essays, some previously unpublished touch on literary, personal, biographical, theatrical, and social subjects.
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB295
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1974, c1948]
Physical Desc
viii, 240 p. 21 cm.
Language
English