Drugi tom cyklu o Audrinie. Posiadłość rodu Whitefern i jej serce - wielki wiktoriański dom - pochłonęły dzieciństwo Audriny. Teraz mroczne cienie zagrażają jej dorosłemu życiu. Audrina Lowe pamięta lepsze czasy, kiedy jej mąż Arden był jeszcze młody, czuły i kochający. Nie uwierzyłaby wówczas, że potrafi być też chorobliwie ambitny, bezwzględny i okrutny. Przełomem staje się śmierć jej taty. Kiedy się okazuje, że ojciec w testamencie przekazał córce pięćdziesiąt proc...

W pięknym, położonym w lesie domu mieszka z pozoru szczęśliwa, zamożna rodzina. Dom jednak kryje w sobie mroczną tajemnicę... Audrina zawsze chciała być taka jak siostra, wiedziała jednak, że rodzice nigdy nie pokochają jej tak, jak kochali tamtą. Nieżyjąca siostra Audriny była ukochanym, rozpieszczanym dzieckiem. Jak zginęła? Kim była i kim miała się stać? Co kryło się za tajemnicą, którą znali wszyscy z wyjątkiem Audriny? Fenomen popularności V.C. Andrews trwa nieusta...

Rachel Vinrace sets out on a voyage from the confines of her home in England, where she is raised by her spinster aunts, to the exotic coast of South America in the early twentieth century. But more than just the physical journey from one shore to another, „The Voyage Out” is a story of the transformation of this essentially unworldly girl to a more self-possessed woman in love with the seemingly enlightened yet searching young writer, Terence Hewet. Her experiences, from a...

„Night and Day” by Virginia Woolf is her second novel and was published in 1919. But the novel is very forward-looking in its examination of relationships under the stress of the culture shift was occurring in the early 20th century. The story takes place in pre-war England and involves four characters and their relationships. Kathryn Hillbery the „middle class” privileged girl whose idea of success is marriage. Ralph Denham the „middle class” lawyer who supports his whole ...

„Jacob’s Room” is an impressionistic novel in which there is no defined plot; rather, random circumstances in the central character’s life, Jacob Flanders, are portrayed as observations of the people who come in contact with him. Set in early 20th century England, Jacob’s Room is simply the story of a young man who dies in the first world war, Jacob Flanderrs, as told in fleeting recollections by his mother and his close friends. The novel follows Jacob’s life, but he is se...

W dorobku pisarskim Virginii Woolf listy stanowią szczególną pozycję. Podobnie jak dziennik, pisała je przez całe życie, często po kilka dziennie. Do najbliższych, rodziny, przyjaciół, znajomych, ale również do wydawców czy instytucji. Zachowało się ich ponad cztery tysiące, zarówno w zbiorach publicznych w Anglii i w Stanach Zjednoczonych, jak u osób prywatnych.              Pokrewne dusze stanowią ich wybór: otwiera go dziecinny list do ojca, pisany drukowanym...

Małe arcydzieła Virginii Woolf Kompletny tom „małych próz” Virginii Woolf. Opowiadania, nowele, szkice, krótkie teksty sytuujące się między esejem, rozważaniem i marzeniem. Niektóre ukazały się drukiem za życia pisarki, inne nigdy nie były publikowane. Pierwsze pochodzą z początku XX wieku, ostatnie z 1940 roku. Czytelnicy mogą poznać Virginię Woolf jako mistrzynię przejmujących i zaskakujących małych form, które pisała przez całe życie. Dopełniają jej wielkie powieści i...

An exquisite novel in which times of action are mixed and intertwined, and the summer spent by the wealthy Ramsey family on the Isle of Skye turns out to be a kind of British „chronicle of lost time” – a fragile, almost idyllic time, doomed to be destroyed soon by the First World War. Children will grow up – someone will survive and grow up, someone will lay their heads on the battlefields. Small failures and grievances will be forgotten. The old house will be abandoned, the ...

The story of how women can prevent war when they are deprived of education, professions and the public sphere. The name „Three Guineas” comes from Wolfe’s reflection on whether she should support three different reasons for giving a guinea donation – this creature; a society to end the war, a campaign to support the restoration of the women’s college, and an organization to promote the employment of women in professions.

The action of the novel „Years”, one of the most significant works of W. Woolf, takes place over fifty years – from the 1880s to the mid 30s of the twentieth century. Victorian traditions are breaking down, cars and planes are appearing, the First World War is covering Europe... All this serves as the backdrop for the family saga – the history of the Pargiter family: Colonel Abel Pargiter, his wife, lover, seven children, their wives, husbands, numerous relatives...

The novel is about six friends who have known since childhood: Bernard, Louis, Neville, Susie, Ron and Ginny. After a few key episodes, their life appears from early childhood to the last days. As in most Virginia Woolf books, the plot as such is absent, it is entirely focused on the inner world of its characters, the flow of their thoughts and feelings, the whole story is an uncontrollable, bubbling flow, stream of thoughts, stream of life, stream of time.

From the first essay of volume: The Moment and Other Essays, a multi-layered portrait of a summer evening in the English countryside in the company of friends, we are delighted with Wolfe’s perception and her ability to articulate them clearly. A series of sensory descriptions – the rumble of an airplane, the night darkness of an night, the flight of an owl – give way to a thought no less important, even inconspicuous: „If you are young, the future truly lies like a piece of ...

A fascinating fantastic story about a beautiful young man Orlando, who comes from a noble family, is distinguished by intelligence and beauty, loves life, women, poetry and in general has a very impressive nature and subtle imagination, resists, as far as possible, the influence of light and gravitates to solitude. All the time he seeks the meaning of life and does not find it... One fine day Orlando wakes up... a woman – also beautiful and noble, also delicately sensitive an...

An amazingly soft film adaptation of the novel, it subtly merges the past and present, „here and there”, because it is the world of feeling, and it is feeling, and not dry logic that determines what is important and what is not, turning the moment into eternity, and a trifle in event.. The author describes only one summer day in the life of the prosperous socialite lady Mrs. Dalloway. A meeting with an old acquaintance, Peter Welsh, her first love, opens the door to the world...

A woman looks at the mark on the wall and ponders the whims of thoughts and opinions; a series of couples is captured by nostalgia for their past as they stroll among the vibrant colors of Kew Gardens; the heron flies high above cities and towns, lakes and mountains, and below life continues in all its abundance; and blue and green are given in words.

Flush tells the story of the curious, determined boy Noah Underwood, his tough, persistent sister Abby and their unusual father, who defends everything that he believes is right. Papa Noah is imprisoned for drowning in the shoes of the Coral Queen Dusty Muleman casino. Noah’s father did not do this for any good reason, the true reason is that he thinks that Dusty discharges sewage into the ocean, where children swim and where marine life lives.

The author describes us only one day. One summer day of 1939. England. Between the Acts – plays devoted to the history of England and presented on the stage of the amateur theater, a drama of misunderstanding and alienation in real life of the main characters of the novel is played. Between acts, the ideals and hopes of people standing on the threshold of World War II are crumbling, the whole world is crumbling.

The beauty of „A Room of One’s Own” is that it serves as an example of peace of mind, which, as Wooolf insists, is the defining quality of all great artists. Her transparent and elegant essay is devoted not only to the necessary material conditions of writing, but also to the self-overcoming of the creator. Virginia Woolf, in her essay, talks about a woman’s right to work. The writer considers a centuries-old story during which a woman was only a silent shadow of a man....

Ten wybór różni się od dotychczasowych prezentacji eseistyki Woolf: pisarka nie występuje tu jedynie jako czytelniczka, recenzentka, komentatorka i teoretyczka literatury modernistycznej, lecz przede wszystkim jest „uwikłana w świat”: podróżuje, angażuje się w dyskusje nad ważnymi kwestiami społecznymi, domaga się prawa do „zintensyfikowanego istnienia” dla kobiet, dzieci i zwierząt, chadza do kina, na wystawy i na wiece protestacyjne. Stając w obronie tej „wszechogarniaj...