Virginia Woolf

Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing and under what conditions they might break […]

Mrs Dalloway sa att hon skulle köpa blommorna själv. Så inleder Virginia Woolf sin berättelse om Clarissa Dalloway, en kvinna ur engelsk medelklass i mellankrigstidens London, som förbereder en fest hon ska hålla under kvällen. Genom inre monolog färdas berättelsen fram och tillbaka i tiden och mellan karaktärerna, samtidigt som bilden av Clarissas liv och […]

In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day, impression by impression, minute by minute, as Clarissa Dalloway’s and Septimus Smith’s worlds look set to collide – this classic novel is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. ‘She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being […]

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf’s fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider…His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he […]

Vågorna [The Waves, 1931] är en av Virginia Woolfs mest nyskapande romaner och av många betraktad som hennes mest komplexa. Sex vänner följer varandra från morgon till kväll, från barndom till medelålder, med havet som bakgrund. Sex dramatiska röster och en frånvarande sjunde vägda mot varandra med en förunderlig lyrisk precision och hela tiden i […]