Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1915 and her death in 1941 she recorded her thoughts with grace, courage, honesty and wit. The result is one of the greatest diaries in the English language.

In this collection of stories Virginia Woolf created a microcosm of society out of the excitement, the fluctuations of mood and temper and the heightened emotions of the party.

Woolf's last and most lyrical novel, a playful study on the merging of art and life
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINE.
A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and directed by the energetic Miss La Trobe, the pageant will take in the history of England from the Middle Ages. The past blends with the present and art blends with life in a narrative full of invention, affection and lyricism.
"Between the Acts" was Virginia Woolf's final novel, and this edition contains the original text...

Woolf here portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the character of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family, trapped in an environment which will not allow her to express herself. Looking at the questions raised by love and marriage, "Night and Day" paints an unforgettable picture of the London intelligentsia before the First World War, with psychological insight, compassion and humour.

Follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret.

Virginia Woolf's first novel about a young woman's search for life, love and the world.
With introductions by Frances Spalding and Erica Wagner.
A party of English people board the "Euphrosyne," bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society. She is a free spirit, half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer whom she met in Santa Marina. But their engagement is to end abruptly, not in marriage but in tragedy. Published in 1915, "The Voyage Out "was Virginia Woolf's first...

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics. More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations,...

A pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol, with an introduction and notes by Hermione Lee. To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in...

'Between the Acts', one of Woolf's most lyrical works, was published shortly after her death in 1941. Its focus is the performance of a village pageant, written and directed by Miss La Trobe, encompassing the whole history of England.