Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the common reader, someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She invesigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists.

Since the 1980s, the theory of groups - in particular simple groups, finite and algebraic - has influenced a number of diverse areas of mathematics. Such areas include topics where groups have been traditionally applied, such as algebraic combinatorics, finite geometries, Galois theory and permutation groups, as well as several more recent developments. Among the latter are probabilistic and computational group theory, the theory of algebraic groups over number fields, and model theory, in each of which there has been a major recent impetus provided by simple group theory. In addition, there...

This novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life. Virginia Woolf is direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparation for a party. The novel was first published in 1925 by the same Hogarth Press that Woolf and her husband founded.

A portrait of a young man and his times, Jacob s Room is Virginia Woolf s first truly experimental novel. E.M. Forster wrote of it, amazing a new type of fiction has swum into view. Impressionistic in style, experimental in approach, the narrative is as inspired now, as it was when it first appeared."

Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed.

Virginia Woolf is one of the great correspondents. This volume displays not only Woolf's courage and brilliance, her generosity and love of gossip, but also her genius for close and enduring friendship.

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.