text: [{"text_idx": "#000002", "text": "Els llibres i jo... Per que\u0300 llegeixo?"}, {"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "BlogVi\u0301deosSortejosBook TagsEntrevistesTraduccionsRessenyes de teatreLlibres vs. Pel\u00b7li\u0301cules"}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "Llibres infantilsA\u0300lbums il\u00b7lustratsLlibres divulgatiusCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300ficaLlibres per jovesCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300ficaLlibres per adultsBiografies, assajos i diarisCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300ficaGuies i manualsLiteraturaTeatrePoesiaAutors IndiesRevistes1-10A-CD-GH-JK-MN-PQ-ST-WX-Z"}, {"text_idx": "#000005", "text": "A\u0300lbums il\u00b7lustratsLlibres divulgatiusCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300fica"}, {"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "Biografies, assajos i diarisCo\u0300mics i novel\u00b7la gra\u0300ficaGuies i manualsLiteraturaTeatrePoesia"}, {"text_idx": "#000018", "text": "Synopsis: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of \u2018Publication No. 1\u2019 this new edition of Two Stories takes\nthe original text of Virginia\u2019s story, \u2018The Mark on the Wall\u2019 (with illustrations by Dora Carrington), and pairs it with a new story, \u2018St Brides Bay\u2019, by Mark Haddon, a lifelong reader of"}, {"text_idx": "#000019", "text": "TWO STORIES also includes a portrait of Virginia Woolf by Mark Haddon, and a short introduction from the publisher about the founding of the"}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "One of the books I bought while visiting Hay-on-Wye (the first booktown in the world) is this beautiful edition to mark the centenary of Hogarth Press.\nIt includes Virginia Woolf's first published story, and a commissioned story from prize-winning author Mark Haddon."}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "Its short introductions shed light on how the Press was born, a project lead by Virginia and her husband\nLeonard. \u201cVirginia had been taught book-binding in her teens. In 1916 she and Leonard had attempted to sign up for classes\nat St Bride\u2019s School of Printing, but discovered these were for unionised apprentices and not middle-class dilettantes. But they struck lucky in March the following year\u201d. They managed to buy\na printing machine, type, chases, cases, and all the necessary implements and by July their first couple of stories were finally printed."}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "\u201cDora Carrington travelled to Hogarth House to deliver four commissioned woodcuts in person. [...] The Woolfs had tremendous difficulties printing the\nwoodcuts \u2013the blocks were too high and left smudged surrounds- but the images lent a lively, bold Omega style to the pamphlet. The red and white Japanese paper covers were similarly\narresting. The thread for binding, also a vivid red, was stab-stitched and knotted by Virginia.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000023", "text": "In fact, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of \u2018Publication No. 1\u2019 this book has a red thread of binding too and includes Dora Carrington\u2019s original woodcuts (plus a portrait of Virginia Woolf by Mark Haddon). Last but not least, \u201cTwo\nstories\u201d hides a little secret... once you finish the first story it\u2019s necessary to turn the book upside down to read the other one, so both end right at the middle of the"}, {"text_idx": "#000024", "text": "So let\u2019s jump right in, shall we? Woolf's \u201cThe mark on the wall\u201d is a whirlwind of chained thoughts: ramblings about society, social classes, unwritten\nnorms, human nature... I found some metaphors difficult to understand (as I believe there are a lot of historical references) but I enjoyed her writing style."}, {"text_idx": "#000026", "text": "p.4 \u00abYou never got the future you expected. She\u2019d fought for nuclear disarment and the overthrow of American-backed dictators in Central\nAmerica. Now it was same-sex marriage and fascism resurgent on the far side of the Atlantic. Was that the source of this deep churning? It doesn\u2019t come wearing jackboots. It comes promising\ngifts for the poor. The fear that it was ending, this brief liberal summer. The old cruelty reasserting itself.\u00bb"}, {"text_idx": "#000027", "text": "I enjoyed this little gem, a tribute to the old Hogart Press, now one of the imprints which make up the\nworld\u2019s largest publisher, Penguin Random House. Just the publisher says: \u201cThe Woolfs understood that publishing is where gut feeling meets good business; we aim to continue that tradition"}, {"text_idx": "#000028", "text": "Fes volar les meves paraules:"}]