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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is a haunting psychological portrait of the Ramsay family and their friends who gather for a brief vacation in the Ramsay summer home on the Hebrides Isle of Skye. There is talk of a boating trip to the lighthouse at the island's end. But the year is 1914, a World War intervenes, and it is a somber group that finally assembles to make the ritual journey.
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa... (more)
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The Waves
by Virginia Woolf
One of Woolf’s most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue — from morning until night, from childhood into old age — against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.
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Moments of Being
by Virginia Woolf
Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf’s only autobiographical writing: “By far the most important book about Virginia Woolf...that has appeared since her death” <Angus Wilson, Observer (London)>. Edited and with an Introduction by Jeanne Schulkind; Index.
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Captivate
by Carrie Jones
Zara and her friends knew they hadn't solved the pixie problem for good. ..Far from it. The king's needs grow deeper every day he's stuck in captivity, while his control over his people gets weaker. It's made him vulnerable. And now there's a new king in town. A turf war is imminent, since the new pixie king, Astley, is moving in quickly. Nick nearly killed him in the woods... (more)
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Virginia Woolf
by Hermione Lee
While Virginia Woolf — one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers — has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her... (more)
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Between the Acts
by Virginia Woolf
In Woolf’s last novel, the action takes place on one summer’s day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.
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Portrait of a Marriage
Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
by Nigel Nicolson
Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando . The story of Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage , their son Nigel combines his mother's memoir with his own explanations and what he learned from their many letters. Even... (more)
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The Voyage Out
by Virginia Woolf
True and Complete Edition: Woolf's poetic style is striking in the almost exclusive use of dialog interspersed with short, vivid descriptions of the characters' inner thoughts. She is able to communicate a candid and realistic portrayal of falling in love with all the emotions that come with it-heartbreak and loss, desire and contentment, longing and questioning, quiet happiness and quiet despair. Truly, it is... (more)
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Three Guineas
by Virginia Woolf
Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties... (more)
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
Originally published in 1929, A Room of One's Own eloquently states Woolf's conviction that in order to create works of genius, women must be freed from financial obligations and social restrictions.
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The Years
by Virginia Woolf
The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.
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Howards End
by E. M. Forster
The self-interested disregard of a dying woman's bequest, an impulsive girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk and the marriage between an idealist and a materialist — all intersect at a Hertfordshire estate called Howards End. The fate of this beloved country home symbolizes the future of England itself in E. M. Forster's exploration of social, economic and philosophical trends, as exemplified by three... (more)
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Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
by Julia Briggs
Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts the writing back at the center of Woolf’s life, reads that life through her work, and mines the novels themselves to create a... (more)
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Women and Writing
by Virginia Woolf
Known for her novels, and for the dubious fame of being a doyenne of the 'Bloomsbury Set', in her time Virginia Woolf was highly respected as a major essayist and critic with a special interest and commitment to contemporary literature, and women's writing in particular. This spectacular collection of essays and other writings does justice to those efforts, offering unique appraisals of Aphra Behn, Mary... (more)
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Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
by Vanessa Bell
This volume of more than 300 casual missives by painter and decorative artist Vanessa Bell (1879-1978), addressed to her sister, her husband, and her lovers, casts a fresh light on the celebrated Bloomsbury literary circle. 50 photos.
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Passenger to Teheran
by Vita Sackville-West
In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the Persian Gulf to Iraq and on through bandit-infested mountains to Teheran. She returned to England in an equally... (more)
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 3: 1925-30
by Virginia Woolf
An account of Woolf's life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. "Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose...make this a most valuable and pleasurable book" (Publishers Weekly). "Volume three is as witty and intelligent as its predecessors" (Atlantic Monthly). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
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Harry Potter: Book 7
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling
In the final installment in the series Harry Potter, with his friends Ron Weasley, and Hermoine Granger, continue the seemingly impossible, quest and burden to hunt and destroy the remaining Horcruxes to thwart Lord Voldemort and his dark plans. Along the way, Harry tackles many hurdles such as: hardship, death, exile, overcoming fear, and choosing between "what is right and what is easy." Somehow, Harry must find... (more)
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Bloomsbury At Home
by Pamela Todd
Fascination with the Bloomsbury group continues unabated. This famous circle of friends-Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, and others-has become synonymous with devotion to the arts, acerbic wit, liberal ideas, and outrageous sexual frankness. In Bloomsbury at Home, for the first time, readers can experience this group visually-through their... (more)

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