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A nice collection of five original 8" x 10" stills from the early film career of the great actress Vanessa Redgrave. Four of the stills are portraits of her from her breakthrough Oscar nominated film "Morgan" the other still is a beautiful still of her and David Hemmings from "The Charge Of The Light Brigade". Fine. Sold as a collection only. ... Read more

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A great literary achievement, and the author's most popular novel!

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children are vacationing on the Isle of Skye.From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life.

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Avoid Classic House Books!!!
My issue is not with Virginia Woolf -- it is with publisher, Classic House Books. Among this book's many problems:
- It's riddled with typographical errors and plain old spelling mistakes ("furtile"???)
- No section/chapter breaks (as in the much, much better Penguin edition) -- which, given the denseness of Woolf's writing, actively impairs reading comprehension
- It's terribly designed: Random words in all caps ("BOEUF EN DAUBE"), awful typography: en dashes (-) rendered as double hyphens (--), dumb quotes (inch marks) instead of proper "educated" or "curly" quotation marks. I can't bring myself to look at the text closely, but it appears to be at least partially set in Times New Roman.
- Cheap paper stock
- Awful cover design and amateurish description on the back cover ("beautifully produced by Classic House Books" - Ha!)

Don't waste your time with this edition and encourage the proliferation of such sloppy hack jobs. Look for the Penguin edition, which is professionally put together, and features both an enlightening introduction and helpful end notes. Shame on you, Classic House Books!

Simply the Best
I have now read or listened (via audio tape) to this book five times. Each time, I have enjoyed it more, and have been enabled to look deeper into it.

What I like most about this book are the interior dialogues that all the major characters - Mrs. Ramsey, Charles Ramsey, James Ramsey, Lily Briscoe, etc. - engage in.We learn about their thoughts, their reveries, their likes and dislikes, their fears and worries, their hopes, etc.

In presenting these dialogues, each of these characters moves closer to all of us readers than would ever be possible if all we had were their external actions.

Indeed, the external actions, which fall into two days separated by 10 years, while themselves totally engaging, become the vehicle for the even more engaging internal "events" which "deliver" all the major characters so satisfyingly.

What can one say except that I join the chorus of those who believe that this might be the best modern novel ever written.

Simply put: A masterpiece!
A deceptively simple novel that explores the meaning of life. Written in a stream-of-consciousness poetic style, this is a book that should be read slowly, not at the pace of a traditional novel, or you will miss the slow-motion explosions of beautiful insights lurking about when least expected.Her characters move like spirits in the material world.And as the reader - the voyeur transported to this other dimension - you hear and feel them brush past you like ghosts - who will sometimes pass right through your heart.Unequivocally, this is my favorite novel.

slow, modernist magic
Virginia Woolf is one of the modern writers who changed writing not just in degree, but in substance. She even said explicitly (in the Common Reader) what she does, only so very few pay attention: The sentence must (I paraphrase here) imitate the same order of sensations as they fall on the human brain. This is what Flaubert did without knowing how or why, and what Hemingway did consciously (though he never explained what he was doing), and what Conrad, even Waugh (Evelyn, that is), and many others did after. But Virginia Woolf was one of the originals. Her book mixes all sorts of sensations, from a woman's PoV, so we have description, and auditory and sight and thinking, all connected thematically, leading to the soft denouement. Yes, she still operates somewhat by instinct, unlike Conrad who (I think) knew more explicitly that suppression of all sensations save one give the impression of shock, and that the sense of smell should be used sparingly, since it is it the most potent (the olfactory nerve goes straight into the brain, without any pre-processing), or Joyce (who knew exactly what's what-- see the famous girl-at-the-shore from Artist as a Young Man). But Woolf did marvels with the smattering beginnings of the modern writing technique that she could see, and Lighthouse is a marvelous example of it. Later on would come others-- just see what Flannery O'Connor does with modern technique, let alone Nabokov (in Lolita), Laxness, and other modern masters. But Woolf was at the birth of modern writing, and no one should miss her work. Warmly and wholeheartedly recommended.
AM

"So much depends, she thought, upon distance; whether people are near to us or far from us"
"So much depends, she thought, upon distance; whether people are near to us or far from us".So writes Virginia Woolf of the forlorn, but love struck Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse.There are so many adjectives one can use to describe how truly great this novel is.To sum the action would be rather easy.It's about the Ramsay family vacationing at a Scottish beach house in the early nineteen hundreds.From the outside the action seems minimal, but Woolf constructs this novel from the inside.We glimpse the workings of the characters on this little island.We see there thoughts, weaknesses, loves, and losses.As Woolf writes so much of the novel deals with distance.Distance to time, to each other, and the perceptions we conjure in our minds.This book on the one hand is about perceptions and how we perceive each other in life.The whole novel is set as if it were in slow motion.Very few words are spoken, but the ones that are take on important meaning in the story.As I was reading I felt much the same way as Mr. Ramsay, James, and Cam thought as they journeyed to the lighthouse.I allowed Virginia Woolf's beautiful prose wash over me.Her words moved much the same as a wave does; seemingly innocent at first, but packed with a punch that could not you on your feet.There are so many beautiful characters in this story from the elegant and motherly Mrs. Ramsay to the conflicted and sexist Mr. Tansley.Perhaps my favorite part of the whole novel was the dinner scene.So many sorrowful and joyous things culminating at once.There were many times in this novel that I was almost moved to tears reading the descriptive sentences that Woolf weaves together.I will admit that this was no easy read.It may be only 200 pages, but each page lingers with the reader and begs to be slowed down; allowing the words to wash over.A modernist classic To the Lighthouse implements Woolf's stream of consciousness technique that many may find difficult or confusing to read.My advice is to slow down.You may get confused trying to decipher who's mind you are in. but after a while you begin to flow.To the Lighthouse is true classic, and highly recommend it! ... Read more

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VINYL LP!!!!....33rpm, vinyl record.....Spoken word LP....1964 pressing on Caedmon label TC-2020 ... Read more

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Title: Con el dolor por dentro: madres: cuando los reflectores se apagan, estas mujeres que nos transmiten diferentes sentimientos deben lidiar con su propio tormento: el de haber perdido a sus hijos. Sin palabras.(madres famosas)
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Date: May 10, 2009
Publisher: Newspan Media
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Title: "Venus".(Reseña de película)
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 23, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 1625Page: 72(2)

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Title: Películas acerca de Sir Winston Churchill, ex- primer ministro de Inglaterra.(TT: Movies about Sir Winston Churchill, ex-prime minister; England.)
Author: Alfonson Basallo
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Title: Gente.(breves notas)(TT: People.)(TA: brief notes)(Artículo Breve)(Columna)
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 24, 1999
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Title: Oscar Wilde.
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Wallace Shawn, best known for his comedic roles such as the neurotic dinosaur in Toy Story, the lovelorn teacher in Clueless, the "inconceivable" villain in The Princess Bride, and one of two characters in My Dinner with Andre, is also a noted playwright. The Fever, a thought-provoking one-man play dealing with the issues of poverty, an unbalanced economy, and the class system, now makes its CD debut, after incarnations in other media, including an award-winning Off-Broadway play (1991), a book (Grove Press, 2004), and a film starring Vanessa Redgrave (HBO Films, 2004). The Fever's setting is a hotel bathroom in an unspecified "poor country where my language isn't spoken." The narrator is sick, both physically and metaphysically, and spends the next 90 minutes ruminating on the distinction between his own privileged upbringing and the unbearable poverty he sees all around him. He gradually comes to see himself as part of a brutal system in which a seemingly liberal, upper-class society can only exist on the backs of the world's billions of nameless, faceless poor. By the close of the performance, the listener is left feeling uncomfortable, and perhaps even accountable, for the inequalities of the world. The Fever was not written to lightly entertain, but rather to provoke and enlighten. ... Read more

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Hailed as the "rightful heir" to The Wind in the Willows, William Horwood's critically acclaimed sequel comes to magical life in this beautifully animated feature-length classic. Join four of the best-loved characters in children's literature for their heart-warming and hilarious new adventures along the Riverbank, narrated by Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave. ... Read more