Adeline Virginia Woolf fu una novelista e saggista inglese influente, considerata una delle figure letterarie moderniste più importanti del XX secolo. Nata nel 1882, era figlia dell'editore e critico Leslie Stephen e crebbe in una casa piena di intellettuali e artisti. Dopo la morte della madre e della sua sorellastra, Woolf soffrì di problemi di salute mentale che la tormentarono per tutta la vita. Nonostante ciò, perseverò e divenne una figura significativa nella società letteraria di Londra, associata al Bloomsbury Group.
I lavori più famosi di Woolf includono i romanzi "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925), "To the Lighthouse" (1927) e "Orlando" (1928), nonché l'saggio in lunghezza "A Room of One's Own" (1929). In "A Room of One's Own", ha coniato il famoso detto, "una donna deve avere dei soldi e una stanza tutta per sé se vuole scrivere fiction". La scrittura di Woolf è nota per il suo stile stream-of-consciousness, che all'epoca era pionieristico e ha influenzato innumerevoli scrittori da allora.
Nel 1912, Woolf sposò Leonard Woolf e insieme fondarono la Hogarth Press nel 1917. La pressa pubblicò opere di autori notevoli come T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster e Katherine Mansfield, nonché le prime traduzioni di Freud. La scrittura di Woolf non si limitava alla fiction, poiché scrisse anche saggi e due libri di polemica femminista, "A Room of One's Own" (1929) e "Three Guineas" (1938).
La fiction di Woolf è nota per l'esplorazione delle esperienze delle donne e del rapporto tra le vite individuali e le forze della società e della storia. Alcuni dei suoi romanzi più importanti includono "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925), "Orlando" (1928), "The Waves" (1931) e "Between the Acts" (1941). La scrittura di Woolf ha lasciato un impatto duraturo sulla letteratura e continua ad essere celebrata e studiata oggi.
Romanzi singoli
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The Voyage Out
1915
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Night and Day
1919
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Jacob's Room
1922
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Mrs. Dalloway
1925
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To the Lighthouse
1927
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Orlando
1928
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The Waves
1931
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The Years
1937
9
Between the Acts
1941
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Melymbrosia
1981
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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The Mark on the Wall
1917
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Kew Gardens
1919
3
A Society
1921
4
The Lady in the Looking Glass
1960
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The Widow and the Parrot
1985
6
Nurse Lugton's Curtain
1991
Plays (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)
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Freshwater (With: Edward Gorey)
1935
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Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov)
2011
Spettacoli teatrali
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Freshwater
1935
Raccolte di racconti
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The Mark On The Wall & Other Short Fiction
1917
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Two Stories
1917
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Monday or Tuesday
1921
4
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
1944
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Mrs. Dalloway's Party
1973
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The Virginia Woolf Reader
1984
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The Complete Shorter Fiction
1993
8
Collected Short Stories
2019
Virginia Woolf Diaries and Journals
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A Writer's Diary
1953
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One
1977
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two
1978
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three
1980
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four
1982
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five
1984
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A Moment's Liberty
1990
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Passionate Apprentice
1990
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Travels With Virginia Woolf
1993
Essays
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The Common Reader
1925
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On Not Knowing Greek
1925
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How Should One Read a Book?
1926
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A Room of One's Own
1928
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Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
1929
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On Being Ill
1930
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The London Scene
1931
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The Common Reader: Second Series
1932
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Three Guineas
1938
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Reviewing
1939
11
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
1941
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The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
1942
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Moment And Other Essays
1948
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Granite and Rainbow
1958
15
Contemporary Writers
1965
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Walter Sickert
1978
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Books & Portraits
1978
18
Women and Writing
1979
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A Letter to a Young Poet
2021
Collected Essays
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The Essays, Vol. 1
1967
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The Essays, Vol. 2
1967
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The Essays, Vol. 3
1967
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The Essays, Vol. 4
1967
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The Essays, Vol. 5
1986
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The Essays, Vol. 6
2011
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Street Haunting
2022
The Letters of Virginia Woolf Books
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1
1975
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2
1976
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3
1977
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4
1978
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5
1979
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 6
1980
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Paper Darts
1991
Libri di non-fiction
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Love Letters
1926
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Flush
1933
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Roger Fry: A Biography
1940
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Moments of Being
1976
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Selected Letters
1990
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The Platform of Time
2007
Anton Chekhov Plays (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)
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On The Harmful Effects Of Tobacco (By: Patrick Couratin, Anton Chekhov)
1886
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Ivanov (By: Anton Chekhov)
1887
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The Bear (By: Anton Chekhov)
1888
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The Wedding (By: Anton Chekhov)
1889
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A Marriage Proposal / The Proposal (By: Barrett H. Clark, Anton Chekhov, Hilmar Robert Baukhage)
1890
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The Anniversary (By: Anton Chekhov)
1891
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Uncle Vanya (By: Marian Fell, Anton Chekhov)
1897
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The Seagull (By: Anton Chekhov)
1899
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Three Sisters (By: Anton Chekhov)
1900
10
The Cherry Orchard (By: Anton Chekhov)
1903
11
The Plays of Anton Chekhov (By: Anton Chekhov)
1904
12
A Country Scandal (Platonov) (By: Anton Chekhov, Alex Szogyi)
1930
13
On The High Road (By: Anton Chekhov)
1935
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Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov)
2011
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Wild Honey (By: Anton Chekhov)
2016
16
Vanya (By: Anton Chekhov)
2023
Sarah Ruhl Plays (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)
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Late: a cowboy song (By: Sarah Ruhl)
2006
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The Clean House and Other Plays ( By: Sarah Ruhl)
2006
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The Clean House (By: Sarah Ruhl)
2007
4
Dead Man's Cell Phone ( By: Sarah Ruhl)
2008
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In the Next Room (By: Sarah Ruhl)
2010
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Passion Play ( By: Sarah Ruhl)
2010
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Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov)
2011
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Dear Elizabeth (By: Sarah Ruhl)
2014
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The Oldest Boy (By: Sarah Ruhl)
2016
10
Melancholy Play (By: Sarah Ruhl)
2017
Virginia Woolf Anthologies
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Identity And Self Respect
1952
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50 Great Short Stories
1952
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Women and Fiction
1975
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A World of Fiction
1983
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Witches' Brew
1984
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Magical Realist Fiction
1984
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Famous and Curious Animal Stories
1989
8
That Kind of Woman: Stories from the Left Bank and Beyond
1991
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On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
1992
10
Chloe Plus Olivia
1994
11
PEN America Issue 1: Classics
2000
12
40 Model Essays
2005
13
Stories to Get You Through the Night
2010
14
Fathers: A Literary Anthology
2011
15
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell
2018
16
Classic Women's Short Stories
2020
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Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
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30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die