First published in 1922, Jacob's Room was Virginia Woolf's third novel and the first in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, the work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war.



This Shakespeare Head Press edition restores the text to its original form, notably recreating the space breaks on the page with which Woolf deliberately fragmented her narrative. The editor provides an extensive introduction, discussing the genesis of the novel, its biographical elements,...

This fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf's essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit and original intelligence. Written while she worked on TO THE LIGHTHOUSE and ORLANDO, these pieces explore subjects ranging from the world's greatest books to obscure English lives. THE COMMON READER, First Series, in which she influentially revives women's place in history, comprises a quarter of the volume. Contributions to American journals for the first time in her career outnumber those to the Times Literary...

The highly controversial Three Guineas was Virginia Woolf's most explicit statement of her feminism. Forming part of the Shakespeare Head Press series of Woolf's works, this new edition includes her carefully considered selection of photographs, her discursive endnotes and extensive new annotations of her references and allusions.

Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush, the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf s creative genius and showcase her supreme stylistic capability. The far-ranging essays and criticism collected here include ruminations on the romantic and literary lives of William Cowper and Christina Rossetti and an introduction to memoirs by the Women s Cooperative Guild that reveals Woolf s signature feminism. This collection also includes the entirety of The Common Reader: Second Series, the...

Monday or Tuesday is a collection of eight stories by Virginia Woolf. It includes A Haunted House, A Society, Monday or Tuesday, An Unwritten Novel, The String Quartet, Blue and Green, Kew Gardens and The Mark on the Wall. Monday or Tuesday, the shortest of them, is a very nice piece.

Wussow offers an edited transcription of the holograph British Museum manuscript of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel "Mrs. Dalloway" which was originally entitled "The Hours." This transcription reproduces Woolf's creative process in great detail, showing every revision and emendation.

This novel is a very important piece in the development of the Modernist movement. The novel flows around the life of the protagonist Jacob Flanders.

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.

Orlando is the extraordinary tale of a young man who finds wealth and favour in the court of Elizabeth I of England, but who never grows old. After experiencing love and adventure, a long sleep turns him into a woman, who in her turn faces discrimination and eventually love as the centuries unfold. This ground-breaking novel can be read in may ways: as an extended love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, as a meditation on the different treatment that men and women have experienced over the centuries and as an examination of the way literature itself has changed; 'Orlando' becomes the typical hero...