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From the fleeting beauty of a moth's final moments to reflections on the nature of art, identity, and the human experience, Woolf’s writing invites listeners into her world of introspection, subtle observations, and profound insights. In this collection, Woolf navigates themes of life, death, creativity, and the inner workings of the mind with an unparalleled sensitivity that remains timeless.

JARDINES DE KEW: Virginia Woolf captura la esencia efímera de la vida a través de las interacciones fugaces entre los visitantes de los famosos jardines botánicos. A lo largo de un día soleado, personajes de diversas edades y clases sociales se cruzan en senderos bordados de flores exóticas y follaje exuberante. Woolf emplea su característico estilo de flujo de conciencia para explorar los pensamientos y emociones de sus personajes, revelando profundidades ocultas en sus vidas cotidianas y efímeras.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this decade the equality of the sexes is now law. In real life it’s patchy. Power refuses to ebb or cede. In literary terms though women are again second to none with writing that strides confidently forward addressing the issues, the characters and the stories in unique and individual ways.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. A decade of monumental change and slaughter. Many of society’s telling questions are cast aside in times of that speak of greater needs, greater priorities. For these talented authors their ideas and words keep these magnificent stories at the forefront of our literary lives.

ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിലെ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് സാഹിത്യത്തെ ഏറ്റവും അധികം സ്വാധീനിച്ച പ്രതിഭയായിരുന്നു വെര്‍ജീനിയ. ബോധധാരാസമ്പ്രദായത്തിലുള്ള രചനയായിരുന്നു അവളുടേത്. സ്വന്തം മനസ്സിന്റെ പ്രതിഫലനങ്ങള്‍ കഥാപാത്രങ്ങളിലേക്ക് സന്നിവേശിപ്പിക്കുകയായിരുന്നു വെര്‍ജീനിയ ചെയ്തിരുന്നത്.

वर्जीनिया वुल्फ़ ने केम्ब्रिज विश्वविद्यालय के दो महिला कॉलिजों में मूलत: 'स्त्रियाँ और कथा साहित्य' पर अक्टूबर 1928 में व्याख्यान दिए थे। वे व्याख्यान 'ए रूम ऑफ़ वन'स ओन' के नाम से प्रकाशित हुए और स्ट्रीवाद का एक क्लासिक पाठ बन गए। इस टाइमलेस किताब का यह बेहतरीन हिंदी अनुवाद गोपाल प्रधान ने किया है जो वर्जीनिया की भाषा के आवेग, विश्लेषण और लगाव को हिंदी में काफ़ी हद तक ले आते हैं।

The story starts on a train, when the narrator looks up from her newspaper ​and sees the woman seated in front of her. The sadness in the woman's face ​shapes up the narrator's own life and it's meaning.

Isabella is a happy, middle aged woman ​who has many friends. However as the story progresses ​we realise what seems to be the case, might not be the truth.

Kew Gardens is a story of four pairs of people and shows the oddness in the decisions that shape human lives.

A Heron speaks as if he's a human being, thinking more about everything that he sees and he tries to figure out the truth about existence.

This story brings together Roderick Serle and Ruth Anning, two different personalities failing to communicate meaningfully. Serle is high with self-esteem and Anning on the other hand has retreated into a tiny world which excludes any dangers of engagement.

The story contains an impressionistic account of a string quartet performance​ joining the four parts of the ​western classical ​musical form​.

The Searchlight starts with a group of friends having a drink at an outdoor cafe in London one night. An elderly lady tells the story about her ancestor which sounds very strange. Is she really sane?

A Haunted House is a story of struggle, loss, commitment, connection, love and acceptance. It is narrated in the first person by an unnamed female narrator. A deceased man and woman roam the house for the majority of the story till they find what it is they are looking for.

Milly Masters, a housekeeper is travelling in a third class carriage of a train and the story takes us to the family in the old country house where she works. Does she have some deeper connection with the dreadful family?

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all. In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.

The narrator notices a mark on the wall, and there starts his monologue on religion, self-reflection, nature, and uncertainties of life.

Presented here is Volume III of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist novels ever written: Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather and So Big by Edna Ferber. The first book in this collection is Orlando: A Biography, a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have before or since.

At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan, England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history.

Considered to be one of Virginia Woolf's most popular novels, Mrs. Dalloway follows one high-society woman as she goes about her day planning a splendid party for her acquaintances. As she goes about her day, she ponders on the life she could be living had she not married the reliable Richard Dalloway and instead sought the enigmatic Peter Walsh. At one point, she muses on the fact that she had not the option to be with a close female friend of hers. The novel then takes a turn to follow Septimus Smith, First World War veteran plagued with deferred traumatic stress.