Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) gehört zu den wichtigsten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihre Romane - so die fiktionale Biographie ihrer Freundin und Schriftstellerkollegin Vita Sackville-West mit dem Titel "Orlando", daneben "The Waves" und "To the Lighthouse" - und Erzählungen sind bahnbrechende Werke von höchstem Rang. Ihre Essays zum Schreiben erklärten und beeinflussten nicht nur ihr eigenes Werk, sondern das einer ganzen Generation. Engagiert,...

Did you know the coal fields of West Virginia were the scene of violence and strife between coal miners and coal company management in the early 20th century? The West Virginia Coal Wars are often overlooked in US history. It is time that changed. Several lessons can be learned from what happened during the West Virginia Coal Wars. These confrontations led to developments in labor relations that define collective bargaining to this day. There were...

Ever since she was a young girl, Virginia had to face many obstacles mentally, spiritually and physically to fit into this judgmental world. Feeling alone and misunderstood, Virginia faces what life has to throw at her with sheer determination and a bit of luck. When Virginia loses her way along her journey, she encounters forces both light and dark before she finds a genuine connection with the divine and starts to heal her broken soul with her unwavering...

Literary critic, E. A. Koltonovskaya, described the literary style of novelist Maria Krestovskaya as follows, "Her pen, for all its feminine agility, is often remarkable for its nearly masculine reticence. She has none of the chaotic flood of thoughtless emotions, which so frequently plagues the works by female writers. She does not like lyrical diversions and allows her characters to speak and act for themselves. Even during the most dramatic scenes,...