Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Girvin Press
ISBN: 9781447469292
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Granite and Rainbow is a collection of essays on the art of writing fiction and biographies.
Granite and Rainbow
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Girvin Press
ISBN: 9781447469292
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Granite and Rainbow is a collection of essays on the art of writing fiction and biographies.
Publisher: Girvin Press
ISBN: 9781447469292
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Granite and Rainbow is a collection of essays on the art of writing fiction and biographies.
Granite and Rainbow
Author: Mitchell Alexander Leaska
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374166595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Traces the life of the English novelist, including the harsh realities of her early life, her descent into madness, and her parents' troubled marriage
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374166595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Traces the life of the English novelist, including the harsh realities of her early life, her descent into madness, and her parents' troubled marriage
Gravity's Rainbow
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101594659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 885
Book Description
Winner of the 1974 National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101594659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 885
Book Description
Winner of the 1974 National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.
Rainbow Kiss
Author: Simon Farquhar
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Simon Farquhar's first play for the Royal Court Theatre where it premieres in 2006.
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Simon Farquhar's first play for the Royal Court Theatre where it premieres in 2006.
The Captain's Death Bed & Other Essays
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027236150
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. "This book contains...the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading" (Katherine Anne Porter). Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. 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."
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027236150
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. "This book contains...the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading" (Katherine Anne Porter). Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. 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."
The Woman's View
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367860356
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
What is it like being a woman? Originally published in 1967, here is a collection of passages, all linked by their theme, that of being a woman. They are taken from novels, essays, letters and diaries written by or about women concerning their psychology and position in society from the later eighteenth century onwards.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367860356
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
What is it like being a woman? Originally published in 1967, here is a collection of passages, all linked by their theme, that of being a woman. They are taken from novels, essays, letters and diaries written by or about women concerning their psychology and position in society from the later eighteenth century onwards.
Rainbow Swirl
Author: Helen Perelman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442457767
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Raini the Gummy Fairy is disappointed that her friends do not care as much as she does about winning first prize at the upcoming Candy Fair, but when a big storm disrupts Raini's plans, her friends are loyal and true.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442457767
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Raini the Gummy Fairy is disappointed that her friends do not care as much as she does about winning first prize at the upcoming Candy Fair, but when a big storm disrupts Raini's plans, her friends are loyal and true.
The Uncommon Reader
Author: Alan Bennett
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429934530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England's best loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429934530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England's best loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life.
The Art of Fiction
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Art of Fiction" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. 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." This eBook contains 13 essays on The Art of Fiction by Virginia Woolf: The Narrow Bridge of Art. Hours in a Library. Impassioned Prose. Life and the Novelist. On Rereading Meredith. The Anatomy of Fiction. Gothic Romance. The Supernatural in Fiction. Henry James's Ghost Stories. A Terribly Sensitive Mind. Women and Fiction. An Essay in Criticism. Phases of Fiction.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Art of Fiction" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. 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." This eBook contains 13 essays on The Art of Fiction by Virginia Woolf: The Narrow Bridge of Art. Hours in a Library. Impassioned Prose. Life and the Novelist. On Rereading Meredith. The Anatomy of Fiction. Gothic Romance. The Supernatural in Fiction. Henry James's Ghost Stories. A Terribly Sensitive Mind. Women and Fiction. An Essay in Criticism. Phases of Fiction.
Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
Author: Kristin Czarnecki
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0983533903
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring Virginia Woolf's complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic."
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0983533903
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring Virginia Woolf's complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic."