A single day becomes the entirety of a life in Virginia Woolf’s enduring exploration of a woman’s soul and purpose. As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party, she also reflects hour by hour on her past, her secret burdens, her safe marriage, and other compromises that have brought her to this moment in time. But elsewhere in London, a stranger, a damaged World War I veteran, makes irreversible choices of his own—choices that will intrude on Mrs. Dalloway’s reverie before the night is over.

Employing an immersive interior monologue, Woolf’s landmark novel of intersecting lives is heralded as one of the twentieth century’s most innovative works.

Revised edition: Previously published as Mrs. Dalloway, this edition of Mrs. Dalloway (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Jacob Flanders is a uniquely ambiguous protagonist: he is defined almost entirely by others’ impressions and is nearly unknowable as a result—but that does not at all detract from the vitality of Virginia Woolf’s story. In her experimental first novel, she tracks Jacob through the seemingly mundane early years of his life—from a boyhood trip to the Cornwall coast to his college years at Cambridge to his time as an adult in London and Greece—before arriving at his shocking, even tragic, entry into war.

With its stream-of-consciousness style and its ever-shifting timeline, Woolf’s elegiac tale defied conventions and signified a major turning point in twentieth-century English literature: the start of the post–World War I modernist era.

Revised edition: Previously published as Jacob's Room, this edition of Jacob's Room (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf’s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel’s disparate cast.

A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf’s novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten.

About the Author:

Virginia Woolf 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 Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own, with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been the result of what is now termed bipolar disorder, and committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.

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JACOB’S ROOM, Virginia Woolf’s third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob’s childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams. This tissue of romance, though, is torn apart by the cataclysmic events of the First World War. Woolf poignantly depicts the life of Jacob through a sequence of alternating perspectives that combine letters, fragments of dialogue and the ephemeral impressions of those nearest to him. Jacob’s voice becomes the absent centre of one of Modernism’s first great novels.

Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Woolf was a significant member of the literary society and among her greatest works are classics such as Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, To the Lighthouse, and A Room of One's Own.

This collection includes the following works:

Novels: 

   Between the Acts   

   Flush: A Biography   

   Jacob's Room    

   Mrs. Dalloway   

   Night and Day    

   Orlando: A Biography    

   To the Lighthouse   

   The Voyage Out   

   The Waves   

   The Years     

Essays: 

   The Common Reader: First Series   

   The Common Reader: Second Series   

   A Room of One's Own   

   Three Guineas

Short stories: 

Monday or Tuesday:

A Haunted House

 A Society

 Monday or Tuesday

 An Unwritten Novel

 The String Quartet

 Blue & Green

 Kew Gardens

 The Mark on the Wall

Short Stories: 

Solid Objects

 In the Orchard 

 Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street 

 A Woman's College from Outside 

 The New Dress 

 Moments of Being 

 "Slater's Pins Have No Points" 

 The Lady in the Looking-Glass 

 A Reflection 

 The Shooting Party 

 The Duchess and the Jeweller 

 Lappin and Lappinova 

 The Man Who Loved His Kind 

 The Searchlight 

 The Legacy 

 Together and Apart 

 A Summing Up

In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular ‘room of one’s own’, prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential.

As relevant in its insight and indignation today as it was when first delivered in those hallowed lecture theatres, A Room of One’s Own remains both a beautiful work of literature and an incisive analysis of women and their place in the world.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf features an afterword by the British art historian Frances Spalding.