A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay & perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society The essay lays bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice since throughout history she has been denied the social & economic independence assumed by men Woolf's prescription is clear if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man's she must have an independent income & a room of her own This is both an acute analysis & a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly resonant & relevant in the 21st century The novel explores these issues more personally through the character of Rachel Vinrace a young woman whose voyage out' to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers men & women As she begins to understand her place in the world she finds the happiness of love but also sees its brute power Woolf has a sharp eye for the comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final undertow of the novel is tragic as in some of her finest writing she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit ...

In this extraordinary essay Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century With the startling prose & poetic licence of a novelist she makes a bid for freedom emphasizing that the lack of an independent income & the titular ‘room of one’s own’ prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential As relevant in its insight & indignation today as it was when first delivered in those hallowed lecture theatres A Room of One’s Own remains both a beautiful work of literature & an incisive analysis of women & their place in the world This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of A Room of One&s Own by Virginia Woolf features an afterword by the British art historian Frances Spalding Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love & treasure ...

Collecting two book-length essays A Room of One&s Own & Three Guineas is Virginia Woolf&s most powerful feminist writing justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom & financial independence This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Michele Barrett A Room of One&s Own based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge is one of the great feminist polemics ranging in its themes from Jane Austen & Carlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare&s gifted (imaginary) sister & the effects of poverty & sexual constraint on female creativity Three Guineas was published almost a decade later & breaks new ground in its discussion of men militarism & women&s attitudes towards war These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolf&s fiery spirit & sophisticated wit & confirm her status as a highly inspirational essayist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of & The Bloomsbury Group& This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One&s Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed A Room of One&s Own you might like Woolf&s Orlando also available in Penguin Modern Classics & Probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in this century& Hermione Lee Financial Times ...

This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality A Room of One's Own first published in 1929 is a witty urbane & persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women particularly women writers The sequel Three Guineas is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system & the evils of fascism ...

& Intellectual freedom depends on material things Poetry depends on intellectual freedom & women have always been poor& In these two classic essays of feminist literature Woolf argues passionately for women&s intellectual freedom & their role in challenging the drive towards fascism & conflict In A Room of One&s Own she explores centuries of limitations placed on women as well as celebrating the creative achievements of the women writers who overcame these obstacles In this first history of women&s writing she describes the importance of education financial independence & equality of opportunity to creative freedom Three Guineas was written under the threat of fascism & impending war A radical articulation of Woolf&s pacifist politics it investigates the causes of gender inequalities & the ways in which women&s historic outsider position make them crucial in the prevention of war Both these works started life as talks to groups of young women & their engaging wit & informality establish Woolf as one of the twentieth-century&s greatest essayists Their arguments continue to reverberate in feminist discourse to this day ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

A Room of One's Own based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge is one of the great feminist polemics ranging in its themes from Jane Austen & Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister & the effects of poverty & sexual constraint on female creativity Three Guineas was published almost a decade later & breaks new ground in its discussion of men militarism & women's attitudes towards war These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolf's fiery spirit & sophisticated wit & confirm her status as a highly inspirational essayist ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics ‘ Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate no lock no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind…’ Based on a lecture given at Cambridge & first published in 1929 ‘A Room of One’s Own’ interweaves Woolf’s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen & Brontë to Shakespeare’s gifted (and imaginary) sister ‘ Three Guineas’ Woolf’s most impassioned polemic came almost a decade later & broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war & masculinity This volume combines two inspirational witty & urbane essays from one of literature’s pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant & lucid attack on sexual inequalityy ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Lucy Honeychurch & her chaperon Charlotte Bartlette arrive in Florence they are troubled by the fact that they don&t have rooms with a view Later that night at supper fellow guests Mr Emerson & his son George offer to exchange their rooms for that of Lucy & Charlotte&s This exchange is the first of many events where Lucy & Charlotte are involved in the plans of Mr Emerson George & other guests from the hotel they are staying at But when Lucy & George realize their passionate feelings for one another when George kisses Lucy it is not a simple matter of boy likes girl but boy likes girl & girl is engaged to another Now Lucy begins to doubt her feelings for her husband to be & get herself caught up in a web of lies to convince herself George & everyone else that she isn&t in love with George How will it all turn out in the end? Actors Maggie Smith Helena Bonham Carter Denholm Elliott Julian Sands Simon Callow Patrick Godfrey Judi Dench Fabia Drake Joan Henley & Amanda Walker Director James Ivory Certificate PG Year 1985 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 minutes (approx) ...

EM Forster&s vision of love struggling to assert itself in spite of the rigid class boundaries of Edwardian England A Room with a View contains an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury in Penguin Classics Visiting Florence with her prim & proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional lower-class Mr Emerson & his son George Upon her return to England Lucy becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse but she finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves & the passionate yearnings of her heart More than a love story A Room with a View (1908) is a penetrating social comedy & a brilliant study of contrasts
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- & the ingenuity of fate In his sparkling introduction Malcolm Bradbury notes that A Room with a View &was the work where Forster laid down most of his key themes the place where he displayed both his warmth & sharpness & developed his famous light style& This edition also contains suggestions for further reading & explanatory notes E M Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author & critic & a member of the Bloomsbury group His first novel Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905 The Longest Journey appeared in 1907 followed by A Room With A View (1908) based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother Howards End (1910) was a story that centred on an English country house & dealt with the clash between two families one interested in art & literature the other only in business Maurice was revised several times during his life & finally published posthumously in 1971 If you enjoyed A Room with a View you might enjoy DH Lawrence&s Women in Love also available in Penguin Classics

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EMForster&s delightfully satiric comedy of manners A Room with a View is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range & You love the boy body & soul plainly directly as he loves you & Lucy has her rigid middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte & finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Pertolini flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish the Cockney Signora curious Mr Emerson & most of all his passionate son George Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy & the repressed morals of Victorian England personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?A Room with a View is a sunny brilliantly witty comedy of manners & He says & even more implies things that no other novelist does & we can go on reading Forster indefinitely& The Times&I loved it My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction& Zadie Smith Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879 He studied at King&s College Cambridge He wrote six novels four of which appeared before the First World War Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) The Longest Journey (1907) A Room with a View (1908) & Howard&s End (1910) An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heuruse & the James Tait Black Memorial Prize He last novel Maurice was published posthumously in 1971 He also published two volumes of short stories & a number of non-fiction books E M Forster died in 1970 ...