Virginia Woolf: 358 books

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents Mrs Dalloway Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short...

MRS DALLOWAY (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. Created from two short stories, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” and...

The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was supposed to follow when writing...

Written in author Virginia Woolf’s trademark stream-of-consciousness style, Mrs. Dalloway intricately and vividly explores a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a woman of high-society London in the midst of preparations for a party. Moving through time, and from one character’s innermost...

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...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating glimpse, which display the gifts of a dazzling...

A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together.

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...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 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...

Adeline Virginia Woolf  was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels...

Lundi ou mardi, publié en 1921 par The Hogarth Press, est le seul ensemble de nouvelles de Virginia Woolf paru de son vivant. 1000 exemplaires ont été imprimés avec quatre gravures sur bois, en pleine page, réalisées par Vanessa Bell. Leonard Woolf disait que c’était l’un des pires livres...

En choisissant en 1952 de donner une nouvelle traduction du premier roman de Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out, le grand poète et traducteur Armel Guerne (à qui l'on doit aussi une magistrale version française de Moby Dick) a souhaité donner à lire au plus large public ce texte fondateur de l’auteur...

Virginia Woolf eut une existence emplie de livres et dédia une grande partie de son temps à cet exercice exaltant et enrichissant qu'est la lecture. Elle adorait tout particulièrement les auteurs anglais, français et russes. Au fil de ces Lectures intimes, on la découvre tour à tour amicale,...

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.