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It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today. In Richmond, England in , Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book. In Los Angeles in , a housewife, Laura Brown, is contemplating suicide. And in present-day New York, a hostess, Clarissa Vaughan, is planning a party for her friends. In extraordinary and ingenious ways, the film shows how a single day - and the novel Mrs Dalloway - inextricably link the lives of three very different women.

Bennett and Mrs. Brown By Virginia Woolf IT seems to me possible, perhaps desirable, that I may be the only person in this room who has committed the folly of writing, trying to write, or failing to write, a novel. And when I asked myself, as your invitation to speak to you about modern fiction made me ask myself, what demon whispered in my ear and urged me to my doom, a little figure rose before me'the figure of a man, or of a woman, who said, "My name is Brown.

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Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. Screening Woolf Author : Earl G. Score: 4. Toibin's portrayal of the intricacy and drama of ordinary lives brings to mind of the work of Alice Munro.

Set in Wexford, Ireland, and in breathtaking Ballyconnigar by the sea, Colm Toibin's tour de force eighth novel introduces the formidable, memorable Nora Webster. Widowed at 40, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world she was born into. Wounded and self-centred from grief and the need to provide for her family, she struggles to be attentive to her children's needs and their own difficult loss.

In masterfully detailing the intimate lives of one small family, Toibin has given us a vivid portrait of a time and an intricately woven tapestry of lives in a small town where everyone knows everyone's business, and where well-meaning gestures often have unforeseen consequences. Toibin has created one of contemporary fiction's most memorable female characters, one who has the strength and depth of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Daughter of Leslie Stephen, she and her sister became the early nucleus of the Bloomsbury group.

She married Leonard Woolf in ; in they founded the Hogarth Press. Her best novels - including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse - are experimental; in them she examines the human experience of time, the indefinability of character, and external circumstances as they impinge on consciousness. Orlando is a historical fantasy about a single character who experiences England from the Elizabethan era to the early 20th century, and The Waves , perhaps her most radically experimental work, uses interior monologue and recurring images to trace the inner lives of six characters.

Such works confirmed her place among the major figures of literary modernism. Her best critical studies are collected in The Common Reader , Her long essay A Room of One's Own addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. She also wrote a biography of Roger Fry. Her health and mental stability were delicate throughout her life; in a recurrence of mental illness, she drowned herself. Her diaries and correspondence have been published in several editions.

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