Books by Virginia Woolf

Isa and her husband must confront each other after a day of pageantry and emotional tension.

Personal dramas simmer in rural England on the eve of World War II as Isa and her husband confront each other following a day of pageantry and emotional tension, in an annotated edition of the author's final novel. Original.

Forty-five previously uncollected literary sketches, reviews, and profiles by the distinguished modern English novelist include writings on women and women authors, Russian literature, and such Americans as Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville.

Forty-eight essays from Woolf's literary and biographical writings.

Collects essays written by the English novelist on literary, historical, and political topics.

This fine collection of classic tales by women is complemented by appropriate, unobtrusive classical music from the Naxos music catalogue, along with a booklet with biographies of the authors and readers. All of the narrators are exemplary, but Teresa Gallagher's performance of Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" stands out. In this unusual stream-of-consciousness story, a woman sitting idly in her home notices a tiny speck on the wall, and as she wonders what it is (a hole from a nail? Dirt? An insect?) her thoughts wander to the people who owned the house previously, to history, to philosophy, to her own life and always back to the mark on the wall. Gallagher sounds completely spontaneous: listeners can easily believe that she truly is daydreaming and thinking aloud. In Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party," Carole Boyd's insightful performance accurately portrays British class distinctions post-WWI. Laura, an elite young girl, frets that her family should cancel their long-anticipated party out of respect when a workman is killed in front of their house, but her elders hush her, believing that "people like that" wouldn't expect them to spoil their fun. Boyd deftly creates character voices for Laura, her family, the home and garden workers, and for the poverty-stricken family that she later visits. Her reading conveys Laura's conflict between her former comfortable ignorance and her new social awareness.

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Contains selections from Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, and Willa Cather.

A collection of five short stories by influential women writers from the close of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century include contributions from Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, and Virginia Woolf. Read by Liza Ross & Teresa Gallagher.

Influenced by Joyce's ULYSSES, Virginia Woolf's novel takes place within a 24-hour period and includes a walk around London that resembles Leopold Bloom's walk around Dublin. With MRS. DALLOWAY, Woolf turned the novel of manners into a work of profound psychological insight. Woolf's narrative is structured out of the internal thoughts of characters Septimus Smith, a former soldier who has been traumatized by World War I, and Clarissa Dalloway, the apparently perfect hostess. Their thoughts reveal the truth of a broken society beneath the smooth facade of English mores.

Woolf's first volume of essays consists of 25 selections, including "Modern Fiction", "The Modern Essay," and her justly famous "How Should One Read a Book?" It also includes Woolf's evaluations of such writers as Chaucer, Austen, Defoe, Eliot, Conrad, Hardy (whom she met personally), Montaigne, and Donne--in the most interesting of which she utilizes the techniques of fiction. Woolf always intended that her essays in her "common reader" volumes--which are unusual, poetic, never scholarly but always illuminating--be accessible to the average person who loves literature.

Woolf's first volume of essays consists of 25 selections, including "Modern Fiction", "The Modern Essay," and her justly famous "How Should One Read a Book?" It also includes Woolf's evaluations of such writers as Chaucer, Austen, Defoe, Eliot, Conrad, Hardy (whom she met personally), Montaigne, and Donne--in the most interesting of which she utilizes the techniques of fiction. Woolf always intended that her essays in her "common reader" volumes--which are unusual, poetic, never scholarly but always illuminating--be accessible to the average person who loves literature.

A collection of critical essays by a 20th century writer whose views on everything were widely read.

Collects nearly fifty short stories and sketches written over the course of Woolf's writing career and arranges them chronologically to offer insights into Woolf's development as a writer.

Selected letters trace the development of the author's friendships and views on writing, and are accompanied by background information.

Collects more than forty short reviews in which Virginia Woolf expresses her thoughts about and judgments of her contemporaries, the art of fiction, reading and criticism, and women novelists.

Selected essays, some previously unpublished touch on literary, personal, biographical, theatrical, and social subjects.

The fifth and final volume in the series of Virginia Woolf's remarkable diaries. The last entry was written four days before she drowned herself on March 28, 1941.

The fifth and final volume in the series of Virginia Woolf's remarkable diaries. The last entry was written four days before she drowned herself on March 28, 1941.

Gathers Woolf's earliest essays, reviews, and biographical sketches and provides an introduction and background notes.

A playful and witty biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning told through the eyes of her lapdog, Flush. Flush's version of Elizabeth's life covers the London days, her marriage, the birth of her son Pen, and the Brownings' move to Italy.

Virginia Woolf's only play--a hilarious farce taken from the life of her great-aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, the famous Victorian photographer. It was first performed at Vanessa Bell's London studio in 1935 as one of Bloomsbury's theatrical evenings and later, in New York, in a star-studded French production.

Selected essays by the English critic and author center on the art of fiction and biography. Bibliogs.

Originally published in 1929, A Room of One's Own eloquently states Woolf's conviction that in order to create works of genius, women must be freed from financial obligations and social restrictions.

Eighteen stories isolate and explore important moments of life.

These essays were published by the Hogarth Press, which was run by Virginia and Leonard Woolf.

Set in the halcyon days of pre-World War I innocence, Virginia Woolf's third novel follows the progress of a young man as he moves from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. Wandering through the windswept shores of Cornwall to the sun-scorched landscape of Greece, his character is revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents, thoughts, and impressions.

The unabridged texts of virtually all of the English novelist's extant correspondence, recording her personality, activities, relationships, spells of madness, and growth as a writer from the age of six to shortly before her death.

The penultimate volume of Woolf's letters, chronicling her life in her early fifties. The letters cover the death of Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry as well as the writing of her novel, "The Years".

The unabridged texts of virtually all of the English novelist's extant correspondence, recording her personality, activities, relationships, spells of madness, and growth as a writer from the age of six to shortly before her death.

This beautiful collection of correspondence reconstructs the lesbian romance between two literary greats, featuring five hundred letters spanning twenty years.

A new novel by the author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, written in 1912, centers on the emotional and sexual awakening of a young British woman abroad and her witness to homosexuality, the suffrage movement, and colonialism.

Defoe's eighteenth-century novel of a woman's eventual escape from the life of immorality and wickedness imposed on her by society since her birth.

Selections from the diaries of Virginia Woolf share her observations on English social life, literature, politics, and her own work.

Brings together thirty sketches, literary criticisms, and biographical and political essays in various stages of revision.

All of Virginia Woolf's autobiographical writing is collected here.

All of Virginia Woolf's autobiographical writing is collected here.

Virginia Woolf's short stories are without exception experimental and ground-breaking--exemplary modernist texts that provide an enlightening introduction to her longer fiction and to her narrative style.

Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events--the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness.

The complete text of Woolf's masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway, a poignant portrait of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life, is accompanied by Mrs. Dalloway's Party, journal entries and letters related to the book, and a collection of critical reviews, essays, and commentary by other writers. Rreprint.

Influenced by Joyce's ULYSSES, Virginia Woolf's novel takes place within a 24-hour period and includes a stroll through the London streets that resembles Leopold Bloom's walk around Dublin. Woolf's narrative is structured out of the internal thoughts of characters Septimus Smith, the young, shell-shocked World War I veteran, and Clarissa Dalloway, the apparently perfect hostess who is preparing for her party that evening. Woolf elevates the world of the everyday, in which errands are done and buses are waited for, to a sublime evocation of the vital texture of life. But the interior monologues of Clarissa and Septimus also reveal a society that is deeply fractured beneath its smooth façade, and in which cruelty, madness, and death coexist with life's civilized pleasures. MRS. DALLOWAY is both brilliant and moving, and, with it, Woolf transformed the novel-of-manners into a work of profound psychological insights. In TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1927) Virginia Woolf chooses a three-part structure and an elegiac, ode-like form to reveal the complexities of family politics. The autobiographical plot--which Woolf claimed finally "laid to rest" her conflicted feelings about her parents--begins in St. Ives, where Woolf's family, the Stephens, spent summers when she was a child. ("The sea is to be heard all through it," she wrote in her diary.) It then follows Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, their children, and a small cast of characters over the course of many years as their lives converge, change, and shatter. The novel is notable for the fact that it doesn't deal in large events--an important death happens offstage, almost offhandedly, and World War I never makes an appearance--but concentrates on the characters' internal, subjective reactions, which are revealed in multiple points of view. Woolf herself questioned whether TO THE LIGHTHOUSE should be called a novel or some entirely new form of literature. However, it is widely considered to be one of Woolf's finest achievements, notable for its elegant, nuanced language and its insight into the human condition as it is affected by time, death, and the bonds of family.

Seven short stories continue or extend Virginia Woolf's ideas about the party created by Mrs. Dalloway in the 1925 novel.

Influenced by Joyce's ULYSSES, Virginia Woolf's novel takes place within a 24-hour period and includes a walk around London that resembles Leopold Bloom's walk around Dublin. With MRS. DALLOWAY, Woolf turned the novel-of-manners into a work of profound psychological insights. Woolf's narrative is structured out of the internal thoughts of characters Septimus Smith, a young man and former soldier who has been traumatized by World War I, and Clarissa Dalloway, the apparently perfect hostess. Their thoughts reveal a truth of a broken society beneath the facade of smoothly mannered English mores.

Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and the individual may not necessarily coincide. At its centre is Katharine Hilbery, the beautiful grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney and her attraction to Ralph Denham, with whom she feels a more profound and disturbing affinity. Katharine's hesitation is vividly contrasted with the approach of her friend Mary Datchet, dedicated to the Women's Rights movement. The ensuing complications are underlined and to some extent unravelled by Katharine's mother, Mrs Hilbery, whose struggles to weave together the known documents, events and memories of her father's life into a coherent biography reflect Woolf's own sense of the unique and elusive nature of experience.

As Nurse Lugton dozes, the animals on the patterned curtain she is sewing come alive.

An essay that explores the theme of illness and why it has never been a subject of literature.

Based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, a close friend of the author, this novel pays tribute to their passionate friendship. At the beginning of the book Orlando is a young, melancholic, poetry-writing nobleman in the Elizabethan Age; it ends in 1928, when Orlando is a modern, poetry-writing matron of 36.

A screenplay based on one of Virginia Woolf's most popular novels, 'Orlando' is an examination of gender and identity that is as pertinent today as the novel was when it was first published.

Three generations of the Pargiters, an upper-class English family, come together to talk, think, and grow older in Woolf's novel that is an extended meditation on the theme of time. This volume excerpts one section of the novel.

Three generations of the Pargiters, an upper-class English family, come together to talk, think, and grow older in Woolf's novel that is an extended meditation on the theme of time. This volume excerpts one section of the novel.

These early diaries chronicle Woolf's development from gifted adolescent to professional writer.

POINTZ HALL was an early working title for Woolf's final novel; this volume compares early and final versions.

On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.

Fry's childhood, years at Cambridge, married life and career as painter, art critic, and celebrated lecturer are carefully portrayed.

Originally published in 1929, A Room of One's Own eloquently states Woolf's conviction that in order to create works of genius, women must be freed from financial obligations and social restrictions.

An anthology of essays that provide a critical analysis of different author's and their works.

Three requests for a guinea--from a women's college fund, a society for professional women, and a group attempting to prevent war and protect intellectual liberty--prompted this answer to all three requests, which evolved into a statement of feminine purpose and an impassioned pacifist protest against war.

A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse explores thesubjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides for the Ramsay family.

Influenced by Joyce's ULYSSES, Virginia Woolf's novel MRS. DALLOWAY--originally titled THE HOURS--takes place within a 24-hour period and includes a walk around London that resembles Leopold Bloom's walk around Dublin. With MRS. DALLOWAY, Woolf turned the novel-of-manners into a work of profound psychological insights. Woolf's narrative is structured out of the internal thoughts of characters Septimus Smith, a young man and former soldier who has been traumatized by World War I, and Clarissa Dalloway, the apparently perfect hostess. Their thoughts reveal a truth of a broken society beneath the facade of smoothly mannered English mores.

Perhaps best read as a companion to Woolf's long anti-war essay THREE GUINEAS, this novel employs the conventions of a bildüngsroman to develop the expectations of a promising young man, only to pull them out from under him. Woolf illustrates what happens when a young man is denied the opportunity to excel and is instead sent to war. This book also serves as an elegy for the missing generation lost in the trenches of World War I.

A collection of eight critical essays on the Woolf novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Woolf's shorter pieces on women as writers, including essays, an excerpt from A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, and several articles never before collected.

Rachel Vinrace, motherless and virginal, takes an ocean voyage with her aunt and uncle to the South American coast, during which she questions the roles and education of young women.

THE WAVES, Woolf's highly experimental, almost-prose-poem of a novel, asks the reader, "What endures?" The answer calls out from the novel like an echo in a seashell: nothing. Everything changes, decays, morphs. Woolf sketches six lives--three women and three men--all focused on a leader, Percival, a classical hero. Each character narrates a set of soliloquies through which Woolf explores the ways in which each human life is like a wave that impacts another, but is always truly alone. THE WAVES is a stunning, though abstract, look at humanity--the novel about which Woolf said, "I am writing to a rhythm and not a plot."

Victorian tale centers on a poor elderly widow who, while journeying to claim an inheritance left by her miserly brother, learns that kindness to animals can bring surprising rewards.

An early version of Woolf's classic feminist essay A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, her ardent plea for women's share in power, wealth, and fame is a seminal feminist text. This extended essay is an articulation of Woolf's belief that all a woman needs is an income that will sustain her, and her own room in which to work.

Woolf's shorter pieces on women as writers, including essays, an excerpt from A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, and several articles never before collected.

A WRITER'S DIARY is Leonard Woolf's brilliant compilation of the parts of his wife's voluminous diary that address the life of the writer. Originally published before the five-volume complete diaries, A WRITER'S DIARY was instrumental in igniting interest in Virginia Woolf as a personality, rather than merely as a writer.

A WRITER'S DIARY is Leonard Woolf's brilliant compilation of the parts of his wife's voluminous diary that address the life of the writer. Originally published before the five-volume complete diaries, A WRITER'S DIARY was instrumental in igniting interest in Virginia Woolf as a personality, rather than merely as a writer.

Three generations of the Pargiters, an upper-class English family, come together to talk, think, and grow older in this novel that is an extended meditation on the theme of time.

Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors that impede literary creativity in women, in the story of William Shakespeare's talented sister, who, because of the mores of her time, never expresses her genius until she dies by her own hand.