Winner of Peters Book of the Year 2015 & the Leeds Book Award Grace's fun-loving Mum has found a lump Her north London world of sleepovers tap dancing & playing the clarinet fall apart when she is sent to live with her grumpy old granddad on his farm in Yorkshire while her mother goes into hospital to get better Grace misses her mother so much it hurts & doesn't quite understand what is happening to her & things go from bad to worse when she starts school & becomes the bullies' latest target But Grace is no longer alone when she meets Rainbow Girl Megan & her pig Claude
- when she's with them she feels as if she can confront anything At Easter time when Grace misses her mum the most she knows she must find a way to get to London With Megan's help she hatches a plan to run away that involves Claude chocolate Easter eggs & a risky ID swap But it's all worth it if it means that she finally gets to see her mum A gorgeous story of courage & friendship that will tug at your heart strings'A touching beautifully imagined debut about a young girl coping with her mother's cancer & her grandfather's stubbornness It's atmosphere reminds me of the central relationship in Goodnight Mr Tom' Amanda Craig' At times desperately moving & others riotously fun this is a special book that is destined to charm readers old & young' We Love This Book' This is a lovely tale of friendship tenacity & family secrets' The Bookseller
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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 ...

& 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 is Virginia Woolf&s most powerful feminist essay justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom & financial independence Based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge the essay 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 Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of & The Bloomsbury Group& Between 1925 & 1931 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) 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 ...

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) ...