In this early collection of eight short stories by Virginia Woolf conventional notions of plot and character are abandoned for a stream of consciousness, almost dream-like and experimental form of prose. Readers while find the relative brevity of this volume, and the stories within it, helpful in overcoming any unfamiliarity with this style of writing. «Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories» was first published in 1921 and includes the following stories: «A Haunted House,» «A Society,» «Monday or...
"A strange, tragic, inspired novel . . . as poignant as anything in modern fiction." — E. M. Forster This acclaimed novel marked the debut of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and important writers. In Virginia Woolf's captivating exploration of a young woman's growing self-awareness, the events of a shipboard journey to South America parallel the naive heroine's inner quest. Her experiences, from a first kiss to a surprising...
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITHWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADEWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars.The weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of...
Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. 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 period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential...
The Common Reader' is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. The second series features essays on John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Osborne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Hardy, among others. CONTENTS: THE STRANGE ELIZABETHANS DONNE AFTER THREE CENTURIES "THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S ARCADIA" "ROBINSON CRUSOE" DOROTHY OSBORNE'S «LETTERS» SWIFT'S «JOURNAL TO STELLA» THE «SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY»...
A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death. The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921: «A Haunted House» «Monday or Tuesday» «An Unwritten Novel» «The String Quartet» «Kew Gardens» «The Mark on the Wall» The next six appeared in magazines between 1922 and 1941 : «The New Dress» «The Shooting Party» «Lappin and Lappinova» «Solid Objects» «The Lady in the...
The Common Reader' is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. The title indicates Woolf's intention that her essays be read by the educated but non-scholarly «common reader,» who examines books for personal enjoyment. Woolf outlines her literary philosophy in the introductory essay to the first series, «The Common Reader,» and in the concluding essay to the second series, «How Should One Read a Book?» The first series...
Virginia Woolfs weltberühmter Roman über einen Mittwoch in London im Juni 1923: Die äußeren Ereignisse – Clarissa Dalloways Vorbereitung ihrer Abendgesellschaft sowie Besuche und Streifzüge durch Westminster – stecken in dieser Geschichte vor dem Innenleben der Protagonisten zurück. Im Zentrum stehen die psychischen Prozesse, Assoziationen und Wahrnehmungen der Beteiligten. -
Woolfs vorletzter Roman, mit dem sie große Erfolge feierte: Dieser drei Generationen umspannende Familienroman, der sich von 1880 bis in die 1930er Jahre erstreckt, erzählt das Leben der Londoner Offiziersfamilie Pargiter. Hierbei geht es um die Schicksale der Großeltern, Eltern und Kinder, die über die Jahre begleitet werden. Die auf den ersten Blick für Woolf ungewöhnlich konventionelle Erzählweise wird durch wiederkehrende, das Gestern und das Heute verbindende Augenblicke aufgebrochen.-
This eBook edition of «Monday or Tuesday & Other Stories» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Monday or Tuesday, published in 1921, is the only collection of Virginia Woolf's short stories that appeared during her lifetime, though she wrote stories and sketches throughout her life. It contains eight short stories: A Haunted House A Society Monday or Tuesday An Unwritten Novel (first published in 1920) The String Quartet Blue...
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, «A Writer's Diary» was drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing and those that are clearly writing exercises, accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work, and finally, comments on books she was reading. Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost...