Orlando

The set includes three books by Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a British writer, a prominent representative of the modernist movement in literature, a member of the famous Bloomsbury circle, and the author of novels that became classics of the "stream of consciousness." Her works reveal the history of English modernism with its love for the word, its sound, shades of meaning, and associations. She experimented with the stream of consciousness and highlighted not only the psychological, but also the emotional component in the behavior of the main characters. Woolf's novels are directed to the very core of life, to warmth and thrill, air and light, and they communicate this acute sense of life to the reader. "Mrs. Dalloway" - Clarissa Dalloway, a society lady in her early fifties, is preparing for a party she is hosting at her home. In the morning, she goes out to buy flowers, she loves them very much, she must decorate the house with them by the evening. Walking around London, she remembers her youth, her first love. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran of the First World War, suffering from shell shock, goes with his wife Lucretia to see a psychiatrist. Smith's day intertwines with the day of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converge when the party reaches its climax. Learning of the tragedy with Smith, Clarissa rethinks her life and attitude to death. "To the Lighthouse" is a book categorically unusual. Two days separated by a ten-year period. Depicted ideas, moods and spiritual experience. Memory, with the help of which, little by little and imperceptibly, a great life enters this subtle and elegant novel. This is the most famous work of Virginia Woolf. In its pages, the large Ramsay family, spending the summer on the Isle of Skye, dreams of going to the lighthouse that is visible from their shore. Every day, Mrs. Ramsay informs that their father will take them there the next day. However, the trip is postponed more and more. Having described this story, Woolf managed to draw a bizarre three-dimensional picture of human relationships and tell how and what women and men think while no one hears them. Orlando is a novel that destroys the limitations of genre, time and human self-determination. Woolf's extraordinary hero overcomes various obstacles, the complexities of human emotions, society's obsession with conformism - starting in Elizabethan England and ending in 1928, while remaining 36 years old. The fantastic story of Orlando, the ageless hero, spanning three hundred and fifty years, was decades ahead of its time. Virginia Woolf's semi-autobiographical satirical novel was inspired by the life of her friend Vita Sackville-West, an English writer and journalist. The author's spelling and punctuation have been preserved in the translation.