Virginia Woolf

A Room of One s Own is a long feminist essay by Virginia Woolf which was first published in 1929. Woolf based her polemic on two lectures she delivered to two different Cambridge student societies at Newnham and Girton Colleges on 20 and 26 October 1928 respectively. Her famous quote a woman must ha..

مسز ڈیلاوے اپنی ضخامت میں ایک مختصر ناول ہے، لیکن اپنی بلاغت میں ایک انکشاف ہے۔یہ جون ۱۹۲۳ کے لندن میں اعلیٰ طبقے کی ایک خاتون، کلیریسا ڈیلاوے کے ایک دن کی کہانی ہے۔اس دن لندن میں کیا ہورہا ہے؛ کلیریسا، اس سے متعلق افراد اور غیر متعلق افرادپر کیا گزر رہی ہے۔ کلیریسا نے اس شام اپنے گھر پر ایک ضیافت ک..

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As s..

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabe..

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensio..