The complete series 1 and 2 of the smart and surreal sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key and Lloyd Woolf.In this complete collection of BBC Radio 4 series of 'Cowards', a batch of hapless and hopeful nearly-men battle with the challenge of everyday life, doing their very best to meet the demands of the modern world.Bikes start talking, genies appear that force you to guess what your three wishes are, bridges across the channel are built out of Lego, P...

Na primavera de 1935, Virginia Woolf terminara de escrever As ondas, talvez o mais experimental de seus livros. Estava exausta. Para espairecer, lia os dois volumes da correspondência de Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a importante poeta da era vitoriana, mais conhecida no Brasil pelo livro Sonetos da portuguesa (trad. Leonardo Fróes, Rocco). Foi instigada por essa leitura que Virginia resolveu escrever Flush: uma biografia. O relato de Virginia inicia na época em que Elizabeth conheceu o poet...

Jacob’s Room was written in 1922 and is Virginia Woolf’s third novel, the first in which she made a radical shift from the established style of prose narrative writing and began experimenting with the modernist ‘stream of consciousness style’ now so firmly associated with her work and which so shook the literary establishment.Jacob’s Room is overwhelmingly centered around feelings of absence and emptiness and is a collection of memories and sensations that chart t...

‘She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.’Virginia Woolf’s most famous ‘stream of consciousness’ novel, ‘Mrs. Dalloway', records the events of one June day in 1923 - the day on which Clarissa Dalloway is hosting a party in her London home. The novel continues to fascinate and challenge, hinting at homosexuality, mental illness, racial pre...