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About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid.
With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life among friends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself.
Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). From then on her fiction became a series of brilliant and extraordinarily varied experiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting the relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and history. She was particularly concerned with women's experience, not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of feminist polemic, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938).
Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). All these are published by Penguin, as are her Diaries, Volumes I-V, and selections from her essays and short stories.
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* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Woolf’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL 10 novels, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories and essays
* The rare play penned by Woolf, appearing in no other collection
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* Includes Woolf’s memoirs and diary - spend hours exploring the author’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
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CONTENTS:
The Novels
THE VOYAGE OUT
NIGHT AND DAY
JACOB’S ROOM
MRS. DALLOWAY
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
ORLANDO
THE WAVES
FLUSH
THE YEARS
BETWEEN THE ACTS
The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Play
FRESHWATER
The Non-Fiction
THE COMMON READER: FIRST SERIES
THE COMMON READER: SECOND SERIES
A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
LONDON ESSAYS
WALTER SICKERT: A CONVERSATION
THREE GUINEAS
THE DEATH OF THE MOTH AND OTHER ESSAYS
THE MOMENT AND OTHER ESSAYS
ROGER FRY: A BIOGRAPHY
ON BEING ILL
THE CAPTAIN’S DEATH BED AND OTHER ESSAYS
GRANITE AND RAINBOW
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS
WOMEN AND WRITING
UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS
The Essays
LIST OF ESSAYS AND REVIEWS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF ESSAYS AND REVIEWS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Memoirs
MOMENTS OF BEING
WRITER’S DIARY
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FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE
Who 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 revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad: all are here, in anonymously published pieces, in which may be glimpsed the thinking behind Woolf’s works of fiction and the enquiring, feminist spirit of A Room of One’s Own.
Here is Woolf the critical essayist, offering, at one moment, a playful hypothesis and, at another, a judgement laid down with the authority of a twentieth-century Dr Johnson. Here is Woolf working out precisely what’s great about Hardy, and how Elizabeth Barrett Browning made books a “substitute for living” because she was “forbidden to scamper on the grass”. Above all, here is Virginia Woolf the reader, whose enthusiasm for great literature remains palpable and inspirational today.
The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.
Here you will find the complete novels of Virginia Woolf in the chronological order of their original publication.
The famous book-length essay A Room of One's Own was here included as a bonus.
- The Voyage Out
- Night and Day
- Jacob's Room
- Mrs Dalloway
- To the Lighthouse
- Orlando
- The Waves
- The Years
- Between the Acts
Bonus: A Room of One's Own
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