Virginia Woolf

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
# Titolo Anno
1 The Voyage Out 1915
2 Night and Day 1919
3 Jacob's Room 1922
4 Mrs. Dalloway 1925
5 To the Lighthouse 1927
6 Orlando 1928
7 The Waves 1931
8 The Years 1937
9 Between the Acts 1941
10 Melymbrosia 1981
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 The Mark on the Wall 1917
2 Kew Gardens 1919
3 A Society 1921
4 The Lady in the Looking Glass 1960
5 The Widow and the Parrot 1985
6 Nurse Lugton's Curtain 1991
Plays (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)
# Titolo Anno
1 Freshwater (With: Edward Gorey) 1935
2 Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov) 2011
Spettacoli teatrali
# Titolo Anno
1 Freshwater 1935
Raccolte di racconti
# Titolo Anno
1 The Mark On The Wall & Other Short Fiction 1917
2 Two Stories 1917
3 Monday or Tuesday 1921
4 A Haunted House and Other Short Stories 1944
5 Mrs. Dalloway's Party 1973
6 The Virginia Woolf Reader 1984
7 The Complete Shorter Fiction 1993
8 Collected Short Stories 2019
Virginia Woolf Diaries and Journals
# Titolo Anno
1 A Writer's Diary 1953
2 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One 1977
3 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two 1978
4 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three 1980
5 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four 1982
6 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five 1984
7 A Moment's Liberty 1990
8 Passionate Apprentice 1990
9 Travels With Virginia Woolf 1993
Essays
# Titolo Anno
1 The Common Reader 1925
2 On Not Knowing Greek 1925
3 How Should One Read a Book? 1926
4 A Room of One's Own 1928
5 Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown 1929
6 On Being Ill 1930
7 The London Scene 1931
8 The Common Reader: Second Series 1932
9 Three Guineas 1938
10 Reviewing 1939
11 Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid 1941
12 The Death of the Moth and Other Essays 1942
13 Moment And Other Essays 1948
14 Granite and Rainbow 1958
15 Contemporary Writers 1965
16 Walter Sickert 1978
17 Books & Portraits 1978
18 Women and Writing 1979
19 A Letter to a Young Poet 2021
Collected Essays
# Titolo Anno
1 The Essays, Vol. 1 1967
2 The Essays, Vol. 2 1967
3 The Essays, Vol. 3 1967
4 The Essays, Vol. 4 1967
5 The Essays, Vol. 5 1986
6 The Essays, Vol. 6 2011
7 Street Haunting 2022
The Letters of Virginia Woolf Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1 1975
2 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2 1976
3 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3 1977
4 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4 1978
5 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5 1979
6 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 6 1980
7 Paper Darts 1991
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Love Letters 1926
2 Flush 1933
3 Roger Fry: A Biography 1940
4 Moments of Being 1976
5 Selected Letters 1990
6 The Platform of Time 2007
Anton Chekhov Plays (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)
# Titolo Anno
1 On The Harmful Effects Of Tobacco (By: Patrick Couratin, Anton Chekhov) 1886
2 Ivanov (By: Anton Chekhov) 1887
3 The Bear (By: Anton Chekhov) 1888
4 The Wedding (By: Anton Chekhov) 1889
5 A Marriage Proposal / The Proposal (By: Barrett H. Clark, Anton Chekhov, Hilmar Robert Baukhage) 1890
6 The Anniversary (By: Anton Chekhov) 1891
7 Uncle Vanya (By: Marian Fell, Anton Chekhov) 1897
8 The Seagull (By: Anton Chekhov) 1899
9 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
14 Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov) 2011
15 Wild Honey (By: Anton Chekhov) 2016
16 Vanya (By: Anton Chekhov) 2023
Sarah Ruhl Plays (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)
# Titolo Anno
1 Late: a cowboy song (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2006
2 The Clean House and Other Plays ( By: Sarah Ruhl) 2006
3 The Clean House (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2007
4 Dead Man's Cell Phone ( By: Sarah Ruhl) 2008
5 In the Next Room (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2010
6 Passion Play ( By: Sarah Ruhl) 2010
7 Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov) 2011
8 Dear Elizabeth (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2014
9 The Oldest Boy (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2016
10 Melancholy Play (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2017
Virginia Woolf Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Identity And Self Respect 1952
2 50 Great Short Stories 1952
3 Women and Fiction 1975
4 A World of Fiction 1983
5 Witches' Brew 1984
6 Magical Realist Fiction 1984
7 Famous and Curious Animal Stories 1989
8 That Kind of Woman: Stories from the Left Bank and Beyond 1991
9 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
17 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018
18 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die 2019
19 Into the London Fog 2020
20 Feminist Literary Classics: Volume II 2022