Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin. Reading Classics are aimed specifically at non-native speakers of English who wish to improve their language skills by analysing major novels, short stories and plays. Each volume guides the reader towards comprehension and appreciation of the literary work. Features: • extensive introduction putting the author and his/her work into context • in-depth bibliography providing a springboard for further study • detailed chronology giving a complete view of the author`s life and works • wide variety of activities encouraging...

ISBN: 9788877540737
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

ISBN: 9781784871697
Издательство: Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: январь 2019

ISBN: 9780099470458
Издательство: Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: январь 2004

Virginia Woolf's works and extraordinary figure not only made her known and respected as one of the leading Modernists of her time, but she also proved to be an exciting challenge for Postmodern literature and art. Reinterpretations and adaptations of her works have emerged, most importantly the adaptations of her novel Mrs Dalloway, which have contributed to a great extent to Woolf’s growing popularity among the larger audience. This short study analyzes the most important Mrs Dalloway-adaptations, these being Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours and Stephen Daldry’s film version based on it. Further on, it explores the relations between the elements that link Virginia Woolf, her Mrs Dalloway and both the novel and the film The...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-9819-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters' minds to construct an image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure. In 2005 the novel...

ISBN: 978-6-1317-8113-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Woolf continually used stories and sketches to experiment with narrative models and themes for her novels. This collection of nearly fifty pieces brings together the contents of two published volumes, A Haunted House and Mrs. Dalloway`s Party; a number of uncollected stories; and several previously unpublished pieces. Edited and with an Introduction by Susan Dick.

ISBN: 978-0-15-621250-2
Дата выхода: июнь 2012

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Данное...

ISBN: 978-6-1310-8752-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Contains: A Room of One`s Own, To the Lighthouse, Between the Acts, Three Guineas, Mrs Dalloway, Jacob`s Room, The Waves, The Years, Orlando. Mrs Dalloway, the society hostess Clarissa, is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf`s novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children`s perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Virginia Woolf`s Orlando, `the longest and most charming love letter in literature`,...

ISBN: 978-1-84022-693-5
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: март 2012

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hours is a 2002 American–British drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Ed Harris. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Michael Cunningham. The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Among them are Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a New Yorker preparing an award party for her AIDS-stricken long-time friend and poet, Richard (Harris) in 2001; Laura Brown (Moore), a pregnant 1950s California housewife with a young boy and an unhappy marriage; and Virginia Woolf herself (Kidman) in...

ISBN: 978-6-1317-8059-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011