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I don't expect any less from Virginia Woolf. Her ideas and experimentation go beyond what I have ever seen from any one author. I love her descriptions of nature and marvel at how well she captures the process of thought and what we think and what we presume...our tumultuous inner self and the guard Leggi tutto

“Safe, safe, safe,” the heart of the house beats proudly. “Long years—” he sighs. “Again you found me.” “Here,” she murmurs, “sleeping; in the garden reading; laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here we left our treasure—” Stooping, their light lifts the lids upon my eyes. “Safe! safe! safe!” t Leggi tutto

"زندگی یک رشته لامپ نیست که به ترتیب ردیف شده باشد,بلکه پرتوی نورانی است,پوششی نیمه شفاف که ما را از زمان شروع ضمیر ناخوداگاه تا پایان در خود گرفته است." لکه روی دیوار شاهکار ویرجینیا وولف است,نوشته ای که از زمان میگذرد..نوشته که زمان هرگز نخواهد توانست بر ان غلبه کند. زمانی که این نوشته ها را میخوانم Leggi tutto

A Haunted House is one of Virginia Woolf's short story collections and I thought would be a good read for the end of October. The house is described as hearing noises of, maybe it is a couple (ghosts?), going from one room to another. These conversations are happening between a couple that obviously l Leggi tutto

I feel a little guilty not enjoying this book more. Woolf was creative and very new with story handling and language. For me, her stories are overly “exquisite” a word she uses at least a couple times in these stories relating to a character’s clothing or things “ascending in exquisite spirals into Leggi tutto

Wonderful quick read! Poetic and romantic. A new side of Woolf. (Haunted House, only) Update: 9/7/24 Discovering this wonderful collection of stories has much advanced my opinion of Woolf’s skill. Though some stories were just average, and number of them very good, there were four that stood out for m Leggi tutto