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Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness.
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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…
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Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth.
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Virginia Woolf’s masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.
Why is it that men have always had power, influence, wealth and fame, while women have had nothing but children? In this essay, first published in 1929, Woolf exhorts young…
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
'The hour should be evening and…
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Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman, with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.
Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel…
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The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of…
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The fictional portrait of Woolf's close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, the hero Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, a dreamy and romantic youth who wakes up one…
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Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness modernist masterpiece.
Dorothy Brewster
First published in 1959, Virginia Woolf's London takes the reader on a tour of London with Mrs. Woolf.
Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer
Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing
Rigel Beth Daugherty
Provides the most comprehensive portrayal of Virginia Woolf's education to date.
Mrs. Dalloway is Virginia Woolf's best known novel. This landmark novel is a masterpiece. While the book seems to take place in a single day in the life of the…
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Young Orlando is a sixteen-year-old English noblemen during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Around the age of thirty, he undergoes a mysterious sex change and lives on for another…
Charlotte Taylor Suppe
Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought
Edward Albee
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.
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Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By the close, he will have transformed into…
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Chase your inspiration alongside inspiring quotes from English author Virginia Woolf.
Hermione Lee
A richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions intact. Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness and suicide are brought…
Michael Rosenthal
First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf's non-fiction as well as fiction, exploring the different ways Woolf sought to…
Laura Marcus
Examines a wide range of Virginia Woolf’s novels, short stories, essays and autobiographical writings in the context of themes and topics of central contemporary relevance and interest: time, history and…
Rachel Bowlby’s anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions…
Originally published in 1962, Virginia Woolf, provides a commentary on the literary work of Virginia Woolf - examining not only her the novels, but also the considerable body of criticism…
James Acheson
James Acheson presents a vibrant collection of brand new essays on Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’. A team of leading scholars provide stimulating re-assessments and fresh critical…
Joan Bennett
Behind this study of Virginia Woolf’s novels is an intense interest in the person revealed in the novelist. The criticism is warm as well as acute and the whole study…
E. M. Forster
Originally published in 1942, this book presents the 1941 Rede Lecture by E. M. Forster which celebrates Virginia Woolf’s colossal contribution to literature and challenges her work as both a…
Ira Nadel
Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf’s homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her…
Nigel Nicolson
‘You cannot find peace by avoiding life’ Virginia Woolf An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - ‘All you need to know…
A biography of Virginia Woolf which moves freely between a detailed life-story and attempts to understand significant questions. She is presented as occupying a distinct and even uneasy position within…
Carl Woodring
Dans un recit bouleversant, Viviane Forrester nous presente une Virginia Woolf chatoyante, desopilante et meurtrie, differente certainement de la legende batie par son mari Leonard… Une femme qui eut a…
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Originally Published: The common reader. London: Hogarth Press, 1932.
Viviane Forrester
Hilary Newman
Hilary Newman traces Virginia Woolf's examination of the Brontes across a wide variety of genres: juvenilia, novels, essays, feminist polemics, diaries, and letters. This book adopts a Woolfian approach to…
Anne Reus
The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography.
This rich introduction to the art of Virginia Woolf contains the complete texts of five short stories and eight essays, together with substantial excerpts from the longer fiction and nonfiction…
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on October 11, 1928. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's…
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The most ambitious of Woolf’s novels, and the last one to be published during her lifetime, The Years is a work suffused with a haunting, melancholy sense of time and…
Illustrated Edition: Featuring 15 compelling illustrations that enhance the reader's experience, breathing visual life into Woolf's profound narrative. Summary Included: A concise and captivating summary provides a quick glimpse into…
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the…
‘To the Lighthouse’ was Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years…
Once called, "the longest and most charming love letter in literature," Orlando: A Biography(1928) is a semi-biographical novel by Virginia Woolf.
Inspired by a three-year long affair with Vita Sackville-West…