Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to enacapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but rarely did she publish them. This volume brings together the stories from her own collection 'Monday or Tuesday', together with stories that later appeared indivdually in magazines and those from amongst her papers that her widower, Leonard, thought sufficiently polished to put before her readers.

Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to enacapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but rarely did she publish them. This volume brings together the stories from her own collection 'Monday or Tuesday', together with stories that later appeared indivdually in magazines and those from amongst her papers that her widower, Leonard, thought sufficiently polished to put before her readers.

Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it looks forward to the war, with veiled allusions to connection with the continent by flight, swallows representing aircraft, and plunging into darkness. The pageant is a play within a play, representing a rather cynical view of English history. Woolf links together...

Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women's writing and gender studies. A film adaptation was released in 1992, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I. (wikipedia.org)

The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. The 21st Century author and critic Becky Nordensten has described The Waves as a "beautiful novel with language and imagery unmatched in 20th Century English literature."In 1996, Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi released a solo piano album "Le Onde" based upon the novel.

-To the Lighthouse- is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each other's company. The island is overlooked in the distance by a lighthouse, the object of desire especially for the Ramsay's six year old son, James. Whilst each of the three sections is fragmented into stream-of-consciousness contributions from various narrators, at the centre of it all is Mrs...

Mrs Dalloway is one of Virginia Woolfs best-known novels. Its story details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters minds to construct an image of Clarissas life and of the inter-war social structure.