THE NOVELS The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob's Room (1922) Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) The Waves (1931) The Years (1937) Between the Acts (1941) THE 'BIOGRAPHIES' Orlando: a biography (1928) Flush: a biography (1933) Roger Fry: a biography (1940) THE STORIES Two Stories (1917) Kew Gardens (1919) Monday or Tuesday (1921) A Haunted House, and other short stories (1944) Nurse Lugton's Golden Thimble (1966) Mrs...
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Art of Fiction». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: The Narrow Bridge of Art. Hours in a Library. Impassioned Prose. Life and the Novelist. On Rereading Meredith. The Anatomy of Fiction. Gothic Romance. The Supernatural in Fiction. Henry James's Ghost Stories. A Terribly Sensitive Mind. Women and Fiction. An Essay...
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Death of the Moth & Other Essays». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. CONTENTS: The Death of the Moth Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car Three Pictures Old Mrs. Grey Street Haunting: A London Adventure Jones and Wilkinson «Twelfth Night» At the Old Vic Madame de Sévigné The Humane Art Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole The...
These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. «This book contains…the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading» (Katherine Anne Porter). Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar...
MRS DALLOWAY (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. Created from two short stories, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” and the unfinished “The Prime Minister,” the novel addresses Clarissa’s preparations for a party she will host that evening. With an interior perspective, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and...
ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf’s lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf’s most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history....
ROOM OF ONE'S OWN is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled «Women and Fiction,» which was...
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. This mammoth collection of her work assembles 28 novels and short stories, including many of her most famous works. Contained here are: <P> THE VOYAGE OUT<BR> NIGHT AND DAY<BR> JACOB'S ROOM<BR> ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY<BR> A HAUNTED HOUSE<BR> A SOCIETY<BR> BLUE & GREEN<BR> MONDAY OR TUESDAY<BR> AN UNWRITTEN...
The first novel of a major literary figure of the twentieth century, «The Voyage Out» is a witty social satire that witnesses the maturity of the young Englishwoman Rachel Vinrace. She begins a long voyage to South America from London, on her father's ship with her unusual family. In the eclectic array of passengers with which they launch, Woolf invokes satire to address modern criticisms of Edwardian life. This physical passage also becomes a journey of self-discovery for Rachel, taking on...