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Jacob's Room (Summarized Edition)
Published in 1922, Jacob's Room is Woolf's first fully modernist experiment, composing Jacob Flanders through a mosaic of voices, objects, and rooms. Impressionistic vignettes move from a Cornish shore to Cambridge and London; syntax is elliptical, focalization fluid, so identity appears as pattern rather than possession. Classical allusion, letters, and precise things weave memory and time under the Great War's gathering shadow; the empty room is elegy and critique. Breaking with Edwardian materialism (Bennett, Wells, Galsworthy), it stands among 1922's modernist landmarks. Woolf, a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, co-founded the Hogarth Press and, in Modern Fiction, argued the novel should register the mind's "luminous halo." Grief for her brother Thoby and the nation's postwar losses, together with Roger Fry's post-impressionist aesthetics, shaped the book's episodic design. It enacts the new psychology she sought. Readers drawn to modernism's audacity, the poetics of absence, and the ethics of remembrance will find Jacob's Room inexhaustible. It rewards close, recursive reading and invites reflection on how a life is assembled from other people's sentences—an invitation few novels extend with such intelligence. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
The New Yale Book of Quotations
Author: Fred R. Shapiro
language: en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date: 2021-08-31
A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “A quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves.”—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World (on the original edition) Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead. This book’s quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers
Author: Darya Protopopova
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2019-02-05
Virginia Woolf always stayed ahead of her time. Championing gender equality when women could not vote; publishing authors from Pakistan, France, Austria and other parts of the world, while nationalism in Britain was on the rise; and befriending outcasts and social pariahs. As such, what could have possibly interested her in the works of nineteenth-century Russian writers, austere and, at times, misogynistic thinkers preoccupied with peasants, priests, and paroxysms of the soul? This study explains the chronological and cultural paradox of how classic Russian fiction became crucial to Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer. The book also examines British modernists’ fascination with Russian art, looking at parallels between Roger Fry’s articles on Russian Post-Impressionists and Woolf’s essays on Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.