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VIRGINIA WOOLF

(London, 1882) The daughter of the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia grew up in a literary environment. After her father died, she left her elegant home in Kensington for the more modest and somewhat bohemian Bloomsbury, the name given to the brilliant literary group that formed around her and her sister Vanessa. In 1912, Virginia married Leonard Woolf and they ran the editorial house Hogarth Press from their home. On March 28, 1941 the brilliant novelist succumbed to the bipolar condition that plagued her for years and committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Ouse. Some of her more important novels are: La señora Dalloway (Mrs. Dalloway, 1925), Al faro (To the Lighthouse, 1927), Orlando (1928), Las olas (The Waves, 1931), Los años (The Years, 1937) and Entre actos (Between the Acts, 1941).


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Lumen, 2005

The London Scene

Six essays describe the scenery and the people of the British capital. This edition includes "Portrait of a Londoner", a never-before-published story that was thought to have been lost.

 

Lumen, 2004

The Waves

Considered one of the most important works of the 20th century, the novel unfolds to waves beating against the shore, giving way to six characters’ interior monologues that span from their childhood to their last days.

Lumen, 2002

Mrs. Dalloway

An innovative portrait of one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an English lady from high society, married to a conservative Member of Parliament and mother to an adolescent.

 

Lumen, 1999

Three Guineas

Woolf profoundly analyzes the discrimination against women. A relentless radiography of a society that still remains ours.

 

 
  
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