A Room Of One's Own

Informationen zum Autor Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out , Night and Day and Jacob's Room . Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway , To the Lighthouse , Orlando and the experimental The Waves . Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts , and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own . Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941. Klappentext Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is recognized as a major twentieth-century author and was a central figure in the Bloomsbury group. Her most famous novels include Mrs Dalloway! To the Lighthouse! The Waves and Orlando. She drowned herself in 1941. Zusammenfassung Virginia Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of writers and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Virginia Woolf
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.09.2004
• EAN: 9780141018980
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101898-0
• Pagine: 144
• Dimensioni: 111 mm x 181 mm x 8 mm
• Serie: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Books, Great Ideas; Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Penguin Books, Great Ideas; Great Ideas
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory