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To the Lighthouse tells of one summer spent by the Ramsay family and their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse, remote, inaccessbile, an eternal presence in a changing wolrd. A projected visit to the lighthouse forms the heart of this extraordinary novel which, through the minds of the various characters, explores the nature of time, memory, transience and eternity.

Virginia no conoció a su padre, Peter Tangvald, más que por los libros que él publicó y los reportajes que protagonizó. El legendario aventurero noruego pasó su vida surcando océanos a bordo del velero que construyó, desafiando los elementos y las convenciones.

La inspectora Oteiza se enfrenta al caso más importante de su carrera. Historia, expolio nazi, intriga y vino en una investigación trepidante que la cambiará para siempre. El robo de uno de los mosaicos mejor conservados de Europa hace que la inspectora Oteiza, de la Brigada de Patrimonio Histórico de la Policía Judicial, se traslade a una pequeña localidad de Burgos para investigar el caso.

Adrian Aditomo benar-benar tipikal pria kaya yang dibenci Miranda, tidak peduli betapa tampan dan seksinya pria itu. Sifatnya angkuh dan begitu superior. Ada lagi, pria itu sinting! Adrian berani menculik Miranda hanya untuk mengatakan kalimat yang tidak masuk akal—"Adik Anda merebut tunangan...

The capacity to change one's life for the better is inherent within the individual, according to Lester Levenson, creator of the Sedona Method, a self-help program designed to remove blocks to personal growth and foster self-realization. Here Virginia Lloyd, Director of Training for the Sedona Institute, talks about how the "method" came to be and how happiness, achieving goals, overcoming emotional obstacles, having, being, and doing whatever you will or desire are possible with the Sedona Method, as Lloyd shares her experience with refreshing candor. Lloyd is the author of Choose Freedom (Freedom Publication 1983).

"Gita al Faro" (1927) è il ritratto corale della famiglia Ramsay, che ogni estate ospita diversi amici su un'isola delle Ebridi. Virginia Woolf sembra avere una lente di ingrandimento con la quale osserva ognuno di loro, con il suo flusso continuo di pensieri, immagini, ricordi, associazioni, aspettative, paure.

Five stories from influential women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. New Zealand-born Katherine Mansfield settled in England where she wrote a series of short stories that are widely recognized as among the finest of the 20th century for their economy, clarity, sensitivity and effect. "The Garden Party" is one of her most famous, while "Daughters of the Late Colonel" shows a wonderful sense of wit.

Testo illuminante e fondamentale per intere generazioni, esso ha origine nell’invito a tenere due conferenze sul tema "donne e romanzo" rivolto...

The principal theme of this ambitious book is time, threading together three generations of the Pargiter family. The story begins on a day in 1880 in the household of Colonel Abel Pargiter, his dying wife, and their seven children, and it ends in the 1930s with a brilliantly depicted party at which the Pargiters, young and old, pass in review. Important events - births, deaths, marriages, wars - occur in the wings; it is the commonplace moments that are captured here in a sequence of perfectly drawn scenes.

Conversations happen everywhere. A few words to pass the time or a detailed examination of views. But on trains they seem to be different. Speaking whilst in motion gives the whole discussion a momentum that often takes us into uncharted territory.

War witch Joan Matthews wants little more than to build a life with Leigh Phan. Their hometown is rebuilding under Joan's protection, but not everyone is happy with her solution to the most recent vampire crisis. Meanwhile, Leigh's bloodling powers lead to unforeseen consequences, and Joan is forced to honor a favor owed to a dangerous foe. Neither knows a greater threat lurks behind seemingly unrelated attacks across the land.

To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe and reveal how life actually felt for almost all women before the recent past.

Lord Gabriel Spencer, ottavo marchese di Rochester, può essere senz’altro definito il miglior partito d’Inghilterra. È giovane, ricco e bellissimo, e qualsiasi fanciulla vorrebbe essere sua moglie. Frederica non è di questo avviso. Quando Lord Rochester la chiede la mano, infatti, è il suo rifiuto a essere immediato e categorico. Non può negare che lui sia dotato di rara avvenenza, ma lo disprezza profondamente a causa dei suoi modi troppo autoritari. Inoltre è stato già sposato due volte, ed entrambe le mogli sono morte in circostanze inquietanti.

Inghilterra, inizio Ottocento. Violet, una diciassettenne bellissima ma insicura, è rimasta orfana da bambina e vive con la famiglia degli zii in un villaggio del Leicestershire. Maltrattata e vessata, non vede l’ora di diventare maggiorenne per andare a Londra e trovarsi un lavoro. Un giorno incontra Mihail, un ragazzo dai lunghi capelli e i modi scanzonati, che le dà aiuto in una situazione pericolosa e le dice di essere un artista circense. Tra i due nasce un’attrazione immediata che si trasforma in un legame profondo. Ma una serie di ostacoli si frappone tra loro, allontanandoli.

Published in 1919, Woolf's early novel unfolds in Edwardian London, where Katherine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a celebrated poet, navigates questions of marriage, independence and intellectual freedom. Her forthright acquaintance, Mary Datchet, a suffragist committed to political change, carries a contrasting vision of life and love, and her opinions throw Katherine's choices into sharp relief. While more traditional in form than Woolf's later works, Night and Day reveals her emerging mastery of psychological depth and subtle irony.

Virginia Woolf es considerada como una de las más destacadas figuras del modernismo literario del siglo XX.

It took less than an hour for an old life to end and a new one to begin. When Virginia DeLuca’s sixty-year-old husband abruptly walked out on their serene and happy—even joyful—marriage, proclaiming a sudden desire to have babies, everyone had a theory. He already knocked someone up. Nervous breakdown. Brain tumor.

Хотите избавиться от вредных привычек и внедрить полезные? Это проще, чем кажется! Каждый день мы совершаем сотни автоматических действий, даже не осознавая, насколько сильно они влияют на нашу жизнь. От наших привычек зависит всё: продуктивность, здоровье, успех и даже счастье. Но если одни привычки помогают нам расти, другие мешают двигаться вперёд.

A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical “cottage of one’s own,” battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike.

Liberation Literature also features a foreword by Laura Pegram, founder of Kweli, and an introduction by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, the "mother of" multicultural children's literature. It is a must-have for anyone interested in writing, the history of African American representation, children's literature, and literature overall.