Virginia Woolf

An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a ten-year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time.

Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors which impede literary creativity in women.

The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.

This landmark novel tells the story of the all-too-brief life of Jacob Flanders, from his childhood in Scarborough through his student years at Cambridge and his bachelor days in London to his death while still a young man during World War I. Though he is an object of love and desire for many of the characters in the novel, Jacob remains curiously unknowable during his short life, as remote and mysterious as the classical landscapes and Greek ruins...

Here are short stories by the incomparable Virginia Woolf, including the story that was the original basis for the novel Mrs. Dalloway.

On its publication in 1919, Virginia Woolf's second book was largely dismissed as "traditional," a Victorian novel that plays like Shakespearean comedy. We follow the romantic tribulations of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet, before finally arriving at two engagements. But subtly and presciently, these dramas play out against the backdrop of the first faltering steps of the women's suffrage movement. Ultimately, Woolf's novel is a subversive...

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