Virginia Woolf: 23 books

Virginia Woolf is an English writer, one of the leading modernist writers of the twentieth century, and a feminist

To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration. To the Lighthouse...

Virginia Woolf is an English writer, one of the leading modernist writers of the twentieth century, and a feminist

Set in the eponymous botanic garden in London on a hot July day, the narrative gives brief glimpses of four groups of people as they pass by a flowerbed. The story begins with a description of the oval-shaped flowerbed. Woolf mixes the colors of the petals of the flowers, floating to the ground, with...

Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of...

One of Woolf’s most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.

Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction. Commonly read as a modernist consideration of city life seen through the eyes of a dog, Flush serves as a harsh criticism of the supposedly unnatural...

En este relato interactúan por lazos comerciales el señor Bacon, un hombre maduro, que hizo fortuna con la joyería y una aristócrata venida a menos, la duquesa de Lambourne por su marido arruinado. La mujer vende perlas falsas a Bacon a cambio de ofrecerle a su hija Diana. La duquesa...

Relato enigmático y poético que la autora lo reescribió muchísimas veces. Presenta a personajes en un momento de su existencia, que considera esencial, el azar determina que un pequeño gesto.