The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Orlando, 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', said Woolf of The Waves. Regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time'.

Marcel Proustas "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proustas masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davisas internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, "Swannas Way."

《普鲁斯特美文选》精选了法国著名作家普鲁斯特所作的《追忆似水年华》和《驳圣伯夫》中的经典章节，充分展示了作者的意识流写作手法和他所倡导的“诗化哲学”。作者将描写、抒情、记叙、议论熔为一炉，虽有小说的描摹渲染，更多的则是散文诗的意象转换，揭示了社会、人生、自然的奥妙和真谛，见人之所未见，发人之所未发，处处散发出哲理美。以追忆的手段，借助超越时空概念的潜在意识，不时交叉地重现已逝去的岁月，从中抒发对故人、往事的无限怀念和难以排遣的惆怅。普鲁斯特的这种写作技巧，不仅对当时小说写作的传统模式是一种突破，而且对日后形形色色新小说流派的出现，也产生了深远的影响。

《海浪》中每个引子都是一篇精致的散文诗，以太阳和海浪的涨落与变迁对应生命的兴衰沉浮；跟在每段引子后面的是六个没有姓氏的、高度形式化的人物在各自相应人生阶段——从儿童时代、学生时代、青春时代、中年时代直到 老年时代的瞬间内心独白。引子与正文互相映射，为读者的感官辟开前所未有的、细致入微的通道，最大限度地接近生命、时间、意识以及感觉的实质。这是一部在现代文学的殿堂中占据重要地位的作品，时至今日，仍以其精美绝伦的文本结构和诗意盎然的笔调激荡着我们的灵魂。 Book Description Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself. From AudioFile This narrative traces the lives and friendships of six childhood friends from their childhood to their old age. It tells of the friends' true feelings, which are often different from the ones they portray to each other. The narration is done in a light, airy poetic voice by Frances Jeater, who comforts the listener with her reading but fails to provide enough differentiation to the characters, making it difficult to know who is the focus of each point of the story. J.F.M. About Author Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. From 1915 onward, she maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography. She married Leonard Woolf and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. She died in 1941. Book Dimension : length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

乔治·莫尔以唯美主义、自然主义和意识流的艺术描写方式，在《我的死了的生活的回忆》中回忆了自己一生中与几位性格各异的女性的或悲或喜但都缺乏浪漫激情、却不乏颓废色彩的“爱”或“欲”的生活，回忆了巴黎社交圈中的恩恩怨怨，艳女美妇的附庸风雅，心如枯井的萎靡生活，巴黎艺术家的各种奇行异态，人与人之间的冷漠，以及对现实与虚幻的种种思考。从中不仅可以看到一个杰出艺术家的精神追求，更重要的是可以了解到一个时代的精神状态。