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In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'.
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• Introduction - Mrs Dalloway - To the Lighthouse - The Waves - A Note on the Text - Notes.
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This volume is a student compendium of the three most frequently-studied novels of Virginia Woolf. These three novels, written in mid-career, established her reputation as an important modernist writer. The complete, most authoritative texts, edited from the first editions, have been printed. In the introduction the novels are discussed within the context of Woolf's oeuvre as a whole. Each novel is then considered individually as its genesis is traced from originating idea to final version.
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• Introduction : rouvrir un carnet
• D'antiques paroles
• Le Carnet d'études inédit d'une femme lettrée
• Des notes "réticentes comme une parole qui sait se taire pour en dire trop"
• Le latin et le grec contre les larmes : moments d'une vie
• À l'ombre du père
• La terre et le papier, noirs souvenirs de voyage
• L'Université interdite aux filles. D'Oxbridge à Bloomsbury
• "À quoi ai-je perdu ma jeunesse ? Au latin et au grec"
• Un carnet parmi d'autres
• Toute une bibliothèque
• Rome et la Grèce
• Comment le grec et le latin peuvent donner de l'esprit aux filles
• Un corps à corps solitaire
• Les silences de l'écriture
• "L'envol de l'esprit".

"Entre 1907 et 1909, Virginia Woolf, qui n'est pas encore l'auteure mondialement connue, tient un carnet de lectures resté jusqu'à ce jour inédit. Ce cahier rempli par une jeune femme de 25 ans est particulièrement précieux. Ces pages illustrent le rapport que la romancière a entretenu toute sa vie avec l'Antiquité. Elles jettent un éclairage biographique sur une période que le Journal de l'écrivaine passe largement sous silence. Elles restituent, sous l'apparence de la prise de notes, le portrait d'une intellectuelle qui, double de la narratrice d'Une Chambre à soi, ne trouve pas sa place dans les institutions universitaires. Ce texte, écrit alors que se constitue le groupe de Bloomsbury, permet d'explorer les liens que Virginia Woolf, à l'ombre du père et du frère disparus, tisse entre le monde des humanités classiques et les expérimentations littéraires contemporaines."--Page 4 of cover.

• Preface / Suzanne Henig
• Introduction / Suzanne Henig
• A Cockney's farming experiences
• The experiences of a pater-familias (A sequel to A Cockney's farming experiences).

• Gengaku shijūsō
• Yūrei yashiki
• Kyū Shokubutsuen
• Getsuyō ka Kayō
• Kabe no shimi
• Ao to midori
• Surētā no pin wa saki ga arimasen ne
• Toki wa sugiru.

• List of illustrations-- General editors' preface-- Notes on the edition-- Acknowledgements-- Chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and work-- List of abbreviations-- List of archival sources for manuscript, typescript and proof material relating to Orlando-- List of editorial symbols-- Introduction-- Chronology of the composition of Orlando-- Sackville biographical table-- Sackville family tree-- Orlando-- Explanatory notes-- Textual apparatus-- Textual notes-- Bibliography.
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Orlando, a novel loosely based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf's lover and friend, is one of Woolf's most playful and tantalizing works. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. A substantial introduction charts the birth of the novel in the romance between Woolf and Sackville-West, and the role it played in the evolution and eventual fading of that romance. Extensive explanatory notes reveal the extent to which the novel is embedded in Woolf's knowledge of Sackville-West, her family history and her writings. Thorough annotation of every literary and historical allusion in the text establishes its significance as a parodic literary and social history of England, as well as a spoof of one of Woolf's favorite forms, the biography. It also includes all variants from the extant proofs, as well as editions of the novel produced during Woolf's lifetime.
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• General editors' preface-- Notes on the edition-- Acknowledgements-- Chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and work-- Introduction-- Chronology of the composition of Mrs Dalloway-- Mrs Dalloway-- Explanatory notes-- Textual apparatus-- Textual notes-- Appendix-- Bibliography.
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Mrs Dalloway, created from a series of short stories, is one of Virginia Woolf's best-known novels. Thematically it conveys a rich and genuine humanity, in part through Woolf's use of interior perspectives. This edition provides a substantial introduction, which discusses the composition history of the novel and shows how Woolf's reading, writing, and personal life as well as the world around her contributed to the book. Explanatory notes review decades of scholarship while identifying numerous allusions to Homer, Shakespeare, Tennyson and others. A complete list of textual variants shows differences among all English language editions of the novel published in Woolf's lifetime. The notes call attention to variants of particular interest, including Woolf's substantial addition, at proof stage, to the scene of Septimus' suicide. This edition also includes Woolf's seldom-reprinted 1928 introduction, along with a full chronology of composition, and a more general chronology of Woolf's life and works.
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• General editors' preface-- Notes on the edition-- Acknowledgements-- Chronology-- Introduction-- Chronology of composition-- The Years-- Explanatory notes-- Textual apparatus-- Textual notes-- Appendix-- Bibliography.
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The Years is perhaps Virginia Woolf's most politically and historically embedded novel. It covers a period of intense social change from the 1880s to the 1930s, making direct reference to suffrage, Irish Home Rule, the First World War and anti-semitism. The novel's composition history is unusually complex; the text changed radically from its inception in 1931 to its publication in 1937. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. It includes a substantial introduction that charts the composition process, a detailed chronology and full annotation of all historical, cultural and topographical references. All variants from extant galley and page proofs, as well as editions of the novel produced in Woolf's lifetime, are included, and reveal the significant and crucial changes Woolf made even in the months before publication.
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• General editors' preface-- Chronology-- Introduction-- Chronology of composition-- Between the Acts-- Explanatory notes-- Textual apparatus-- Textual notes.
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Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to continue revising the book and that it was not ready for publication. Her husband prepared the work for publication after her death, and his revisions have become part of the text now widely read by students and scholars. Unlike most previous editions, the Cambridge edition returns to the final version of the novel as Woolf left it, examining the stages of composition and publication. Using the final typescript as a guide, this edition fully collates all variants and thus accounts for all the editorial decisions made by Leonard Woolf for the first published edition. With detailed explanatory notes, a chronology and an informative critical introduction, this volume will allow scholars to develop a fuller understanding of Woolf's last work.
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• Acknowledgements.Introduction.Frontispiece.JACOB'S ROOM.NOTES AND APPENDICES.Notes.Appendix A: Emendations.Appendix B: Textual Variants.Appendix C: Chronology.
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First published in 1922, Jacob's Room was Virginia Woolf's third novel and the first in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, the work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war. This Shakespeare Head Press edition restores the text to its original form, notably recreating the space breaks on the page with which Woolf deliberately fragmented her narrative. The editor provides an extensive introduction, discussing the genesis of the novel, its biographical elements, the process of composition and revision, and the history of its early critical reception. A series of notes helps the reader to identify references and allusions, from sponge-bag trousers and gold beater's skin to Tonks and Steer, and the Hampstead Garden Suburbs; while an appendix lists variants between the first UK and first US editions of the work.
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• Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Frontispiece. Between The Acts. Notes. Appendix A-- Emendations. Appendix B: Textual Variants. Appendix C: Chronology.
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Initially overshadowed by Virginia Woolf's death and the Second World War, Between the Acts is now judged to be among the author's most challenging and subtle works. It is about many things, including marriage and jealousy, language and memory, artists, arts and audiences, and a society on the brink of war. In her early plans she called Between the Acts a medley. Included in the mix are literary genres she had written about throughout her career, echoes of her own works and allusions that range from the classics to popular songs. As the extensive notes to this edition show, in writing Between the Acts Woolf drew upon a capacious memory filled by a lifetime of reading, writing, listening and observing.Between the Acts is both Woolf's last novel and the first of her works to be published posthumously. The first English edition was set from her final typescript, edited by Leonard Woolf for publication by the Hogarth Press soon after her death. The text of the Shakespeare Head Press edition is that of the first English edition emended on the basis of a comparison of it with her final typescript. The result is a text that is closer to Between the Acts as Virginia Woolf left it than are any earlier editions.
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• Acknowledgements. Introduction. Abbreviations. Frontispiece. List of Illustrations. THREE GUINEAS. Editor's Notes. Appendix A: Emendations. Appendix B: Textual Variants. Appendix C: Passages Found Only in the First American Edition of Three Guineas. Appendix D: Books Cited or Referred to by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas. Appendix E: Periodical Sources Cited or Referred to by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas.
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The highly controversial Three Guineas was Virginia Woolf's most explicit statement of her feminism. Forming part of the prestigious Shakespeare Head Press series of Woolf's works, this authoritative new edition includes her carefully considered selection of photographs, her discursive endnotes and extensive new annotations of her references and allusions. In an illuminating introduction, editor Naomi Black guides the reader through this allusive, highly artful book, discussing its structure and argument and tracing the history of its composition and critical reception. She analyses the text as a representation of Woolf's feminism, including the way in which the book's form subverts male conventions of scholarship. All variants and emendations are listed, but the text itself is free of interventions.
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• Acknowledgements. Introduction. Frontispiece.
• 1. Three Mile Cross.
• 2. The Back Bedroom.
• 3. The Hooded Man.
• 4. Whitechapel.
• 5. Italy.
• 6. The End. Authorities. Notes. Editors Notes. Appendix A: Authorities (Manuscript). Appendix B: To Flush, My Dog. Appendix C: Textual Variants and Emendation.
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Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings' spaniel was what she called "a little escapade", begun to "ease my brain" in the wake of "The Waves" (1931). The intensities of that most demanding fiction were soon supplanted by canine psychology and the art of anthropomorphism. For all its fun and frivolity, "Flush" is none the less a work seriously inclined to mock and question the genre of biography, as did Woolf's earlier, more ambitious, and more widely read jeu d'esprit, "Orlando" (1928), and was written in part as a joke at the expense of the biographer, Lytton Strachey.Like "Orlando", it too bespeaks its author's feminism. In this new edition, which uses as copy-text the second issue of the first English edition and reproduces the original illustrations, Elizabeth Steele maps the events that inspired the book. She provides a wealth of information about its writing and reception - concerning fact and fiction, and Woolf's views on the art of biography - and details its publication history.
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