THE VALLEY OF FEAR COLLINS — VIRGINIA WOOLF

Yayınevi COLLINS CLASSICS Yazar VIRGINIA WOOLF Dil İNGİLİZCE

Yayınevi COLLINS CLASSICS Yazar VIRGINIA WOOLF Dil İNGİLİZCE

The greatest schemer of all time the organizer of every deviltry the controlling brain of the underworld a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations that s the man Summoned to a mysterious manor house by one of the henchmen of his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty Holmes and Watson find themselves confronted by the scene of a brutal murder But the brilliant Holmes soon reveals that there is much more to this case than first meets the eye First published as a serialisation in The Strand Magazine between 1914 and 1915 this fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel will delight fans of Conan Doyle s legendary detective and his faithful sidekick Watson

JACOB S ROOM Virginia Woolf s third novel marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation The narrative traces Jacob s childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda the upper middle class Clara Durrant and the beautiful but married Sandra Wentworth Williams This tissue of romance though is torn apart by the cataclysmic events of the First World War Woolf poignantly depicts the life of Jacob through a sequence of alternating perspectives that combine letters fragments of dialogue and the ephemeral impressions of those nearest to him Jacob s voice becomes the absent centre of one of Modernism s first great novels