Virginia Woolf Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Voyage Out (1915)
  2. Night and Day (1919)
  3. Jacob’s Room (1922)
  4. Mrs Dalloway (1925)
  5. To the Lighthouse (1927)
  6. Orlando (1928)
  7. The Waves (1931)
  8. Flush (1933)
  9. The Years (1937)
  10. Between the Acts (1941)

Omnibus

  1. Mrs. Dalloway / Room of One’s Own (2010)
  2. The Hours / Mrs. Dalloway (2022)

Collections

  1. Monday or Tuesday (1921)
  2. A Haunted House (1944)
  3. The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf (1989)
  4. Selected Short Stories (2000)
  5. The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction (2001)
  6. Two Stories (2017)

Novellas

  1. The Mark on the Wall (1917)

Non fiction

  1. The Common Reader (1925)
  2. A Room of One’s Own (1929)
  3. Three Guineas (1938)
  4. Roger Fry (1940)
  5. The Death of the Moth (1942)
  6. The Moment (1947)
  7. Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey: Letters (1956)
  8. Granite and Rainbow (1958)
  9. Contemporary Writers (1965)
  10. The Letters of Virgina Woolf (1980)
  11. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1984)
  12. The Essays of Virginia Woolf Volume III (1988)
  13. The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5 1929-1932 (2010)
  14. On Fiction (2011)
  15. Liberty (2018)
  16. A Passionate Apprentice (2018)
  17. Genius and Ink (2019)
  18. Love Letters (2021)

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The Voyage Out

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm in arm. If you persist, lawyers’ clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you. In the streets of London where beauty goes unregarded, eccentricity must pay the penalty, and it is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand. One afternoon in the beginning of October when the traffic was becoming brisk a tall man strode along the edge of the pavement with a lady on his arm. Angry glances struck upon their backs. The small, agitated figures for in comparison with this couple most people looked small decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with despatch boxes, had appointments to keep, and drew a weekly salary, so that there was some reason for the unfriendly stare which was bestowed upon Mr. Ambrose’s height and upon Mrs. Ambrose’s cloak. But some enchantment had put both man and woman beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed stonily straight in front of her at a level above the eyes of most that it was sorrow. It was only by scorning all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently painful. After watching the traffic on the Embankment for a minute or two with a stoical gaze she twitched her husband’s sleeve, and they crossed between the swift discharge of motor cars. When they were safe on the further side, she gently withdrew her arm from his, allowing her mouth at the same time to relax, to tremble; then tears rolled down, and leaning her elbows on the balustrade, she shielded her face from the curious. Mr. Ambrose attempted consolation; he patted her shoulder; but she showed no signs of admitting him, and feeling it awkward to stand beside a grief that was greater than his, he crossed his arms behind him, and took a turn along the pavement.

Night and Day

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG It was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouring out tea. Perhaps a fifth part of her mind was thus occupied, and the remaining parts leapt over the little barrier of day which interposed between Monday morning and this rather subdued moment, and played with the things one does voluntarily and normally in the daylight. But although she was silent, she was evidently mistress of a situation which was familiar enough to her, and inclined to let it take its way for the six hundredth time, perhaps, without bringing into play any of her unoccupied faculties. A single glance was enough to show that Mrs. Hilbery was so rich in the gifts which make tea parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome business of teacups and bread and butter was discharged for her. Considering that the little party had been seated round the tea table for less than twenty minutes, the animation observable on their faces, and the amount of sound they were producing collectively, were very creditable to the hostess. It suddenly came into Katharine’s mind that if some one opened the door at this moment he would think that they were enjoying themselves; he would think, ‘What an extremely nice house to come into!’ and instinctively she laughed, and said something to increase the noise, for the credit of the house presumably, since she herself had not been feeling exhilarated. At the very same moment, rather to her amuseme*nt, the door was flung open, and a young man entered the room. Katharine, as she shook hands with him, asked him, in her own mind, ‘Now, do you think we’re enjoying ourselves enormously?’…
‘Mr. Denham, mother,’ she said aloud, for she saw that her mother had forgotten his name.

Jacob’s Room

Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf s experimental third novel, set in England during the halcyon days before World War I. The text reprinted here is the first British edition, which Woolf approved, and which retains her original layout, including paragraph spacing. A generous Contexts section provides extracts from Woolf s diaries and letters as well as comments on the novel from her fellow writers and friends, among them E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. Also included are the short stories The Mark on the Wall, Kew Gardens, and An Unwritten Novel, which Woolf viewed as early experiments with the innovative method used in Jacob s Room. An additional short story, A Woman s College from Outside, which Woolf originally intended to be Chapter 10 of Jacob s Room, is also included. Finally, Woolf s classic essay Modern Novels, written shortly before she began work on Jacob s Room, provides insight into her aesthetic and technique. Criticism is divided into two sections: Contemporary Reception and Reviews contains personal responses to the novel, from Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster, as well as eleven reviews from contemporary periodicals. Critical Essays offers insightful interpretations by Judy Little, Alex Zwerdling, Kate Flint, Kathleen Wall, and Edward L. Bishop. A Selected Bibliography is also included. .

Mrs Dalloway

Heralded as Virginia Woolf’s greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.’Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday; that a life of errands and party giving was every bit as viable a subject as any life lived anywhere; and that should any human act in any novel seem unimportant, it has merely been inadequately observed. The novel as an art form has not been the same since. ‘Mrs. Dalloway also contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.’ Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

To the Lighthouse

‘Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that remains for ever after. This would remain.’ So reflects the beautiful, middle aged Mrs Ramsay, mother of eight, as she surveys her family and guests at her dinner table, and sees their fleeting harmony, a fleeting reflection of eternity. This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever. For the children, it is an earthly Paradise. In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting complexity of adult relationships. From an acute awareness of transcience, she creates an enduring work of art. ‘To the Lighthouse‘ is one of ten World’s Classics by Virginia Woolf, and includes an introduction and notes to provide guidance for readers new to this author.

Orlando

Orlando, subtitled ‘A Biography’, is one of Virginia Woolf’s most experimental works, a jeu d’esprit that becomes increasingly serious as it leads us on a satirical, and intensely poetic, progress through three hundred years of English history. It is a book about the nature of writing, which not only plays with literary forms but subverts the fixed categories of time and sexuality. Its hero, who suddenly becomes a hero*ine, eludes death to live from the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the nineteen twenties. While developing her hero hero*ine against a richly coloured historical backdrop in which many of the great names of English letters play cameo role, Woolf explores various highly modern themes. The novel, first published in 1928, focuses particularly on the social and political position of women, on societal constructions of sexual identity, and the situation of the woman author. Based in part on the life and career of Vita Sackville West, with whom Woolf was for a time in love, Orlando extends the boundaries of fiction and makes play with ideas of biographical authority. The novel presages techniques and interests developed in such later works as The Waves 1931 and Between the Acts 1941. Woolf’s feminist treatise, A Room of One’s Own, published the previous year, shares a number of the novel’s concerns. This edition adopts as its copy text the surviving proofs marked and revised by Woolf for the novel’s American publication. Purged of printing errors, the copy text is emended by Woolf’s later revisions for the first English edition. The text is supplemented by an introduction setting the novel in its literary and biographical contexts, by explanatory notes offering much new information about its sources, and lists of emendations and textual variants.

The Waves

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf’s most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book’s six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak through his own voice. The monologues that span the characters’ lives are broken up by nine brief third person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. More e Books from MobileReference Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation TM All fiction books are only $0. 99. All collections are only $5. 99Designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices Search for any title: enter mobi shortened MobileReference and a keyword; for example: mobi ShakespeareTo view all books, click on the MobileReference link next to a book title Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible Modern Translation, Mormon Church’s Sacred Texts Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Co*cktails, Astrology Reference: The World’s Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals

Flush

‘I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn’t resist making him a Life.’ Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both directly and metaphorically. She started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel after finishing The Waves, tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent with the writer Mary Mitford, through his sheltered existence with Elizabeth Barrett in her sick room, and later travels in Florence. But Flush is much more than a playful writer’s holiday. As well as offering an exploration of a life of the senses free from the tyranny of words, Flush can be read as an allegorical testimony to the inscrutable, discarded, unrepresentable lives of the Victorian women poets, who were barely discussed or read in the 1930s. From a quite literally low point of view, Woolf explores class and gender in Victorian London, with gently mocking humour. Charming yet also radical, Flush is a work of sensuous imagination, an apparently light text that opens up a range of questions concerning difference which are woven through the whole of Woolf’s writing.

The Years

The Years is a sweeping tale of three generations of the Pargiter family, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, in the thick of life’s cycles of birth, death, and the search for a pattern in all the chaos. Annotated and with an introduction by Eleanor McNees

Between the Acts

Virginia Woolf’s extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to continue revising the book and that it was not ready for publication. Her husband prepared the work for publication after her death, and his revisions have become part of the text now widely read by students and scholars. Unlike most previous editions, the Cambridge edition returns to the final version of the novel as Woolf left it, examining the stages of composition and publication. Using the final typescript as a guide, this edition fully collates all variants and thus accounts for all the editorial decisions made by Leonard Woolf for the first published edition. With detailed explanatory notes, a chronology and an informative critical introduction, this volume will allow scholars to develop a fuller understanding of Woolf’s last work.

Mrs. Dalloway / Room of One’s Own

In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf details Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess, exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman s life. Paired here with A Room of One s Own, a masterful and provocative essay on women s role in society, this beautiful hardcover edition will be a welcome addition to the library of any Woolf scholar or fan.

Monday or Tuesday

Virginia Woolf nee Stephen 1882-1941 was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway 1925, To the Lighthouse 1927, and Orlando 1928, and the book-length essay A Room of One’s Own 1929 with its famous dictum, ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. ‘ Woolf began writing professionally in 1905, initially for the Times Literary Supplement with a journalistic piece about Haworth, home of the Bronte family. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. She went on to publish novels and essays as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English language. In her works she experimented with stream-of-consciousness, the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. Monday or Tuesday is a collection of eight stories: A Haunted House, A Society, Monday or Tuesday, An Unwritten Novel, The String Quartet, Blue & Green, Kew Gardens and The Mark on the Wall.

A Haunted House

Virginia Woolf’s intention to publish her short stories is carried out in this volume, posthumously collected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday, seven that appeared in magazines, and five other stories, the book makes available Virginia Woolf’s shorter works of fiction. Foreword by Leonard Woolf.

The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf

This volume brings together all of Virginia Woolf’s short stories and sketches. Sixteen have never before been published. These 45 pieces are presented chronologically and cover the range of Woolf’s writing career. The earliest story, ‘Phyllis and Rosamond,’ dates from 1906 shortly after she began to publish essays and reviews. ‘The Water Place’ was written a few weeks before her death in 1941 and was probably her last finished piece of fiction. ‘Although a number of the stories are traditional in form, others are sketches or lyrical prose reveries. Throughout her life Woolf used short fiction to test narrative techniques she would later employ in her novels. To read through this volume, then, is to follow the development of her art.’ Publisher’s Source

The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction

‘I shall never forget the day I wrote ‘The Mark on the Wall’ all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. ‘The Unwritten Novel’ was the great discovery, however. That again in one second showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted it…
I saw, branching out of the tunnel I made, when I discovered that method of approach, Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway etc How I trembled with excitement.’ The thrill Woolf got from these stories is readily apparent to the reader. She wrote them in defiance of convention, with a heady feeling of liberation and with a clear sense that she was breaking new ground. Indeed, if she had not made her bold and experimental forays into the short story in the period leading up to the publication of Jacob’s Room 1922, it seems certain that her arrival as a great modernist novelist would have been delayed. Quirky, unrestrained, disturbing and surprising, many of these stories, particularly the early ones, are essential to an understanding of Woolf’s development as a writer. She thought some of her short fiction might be ‘unprintable’ but, happily, she was mistaken.

The Common Reader

Woolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty five selections, including such important statements as Modern Fiction and The Modern Essay. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.

A Room of One’s Own

‘A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.’ First published in 1929, Virginia Woolf’s pioneering work on women in literature is an accessible yet fiercely astute essay. It is a crystallization of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen’s pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Shakespeare’s talented, intelligent sister, Woolf makes the topic an enjoyable journey through her imagination, filling in for the undocumented in female history, and exploring the loss to the literary landscape in her own entertaining, convincing prose. The recording also includes a booklet with further information, including a contribution by Ali Smith, author of The Accidental. Unabridged.

Three Guineas

Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the ‘daughter of an educated man’ in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war making. This pacifist feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation. Annotated and with an introduction by Jane Marcus

Roger Fry

The last book Virginia Woolf saw into print before her death, Roger Fry , is her one serious full length biography. In her introduction Diane F. Gillespie traces Woolf’s work on the biography and provides a history of its critical reception. Appendices contain previously unpublished memoirs by Fry, a draft portrait of him by Woolf, and the list in variants include those to be found in the extensive typescript version of the biography.

The Death of the Moth

A highly acclaimed collection of twenty eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author’s work. ‘Up to the author’s highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her’ Times Literary Supplement London. ‘Exquisitely written’ New Yorker; ‘The riches of this book are overwhelming’ Christian Science Monitor. Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.

The Moment

A selection of twenty nine essays. ‘ Woolf’s essays…
are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure…
. Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating…
. Her well stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint for the steel of her uncanny intuitions to strike on’ Cyril Connolly, New Yorker. Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.

Granite and Rainbow

A posthumous collection of twenty five essays on the art of fiction and the art of biography. ‘These are aristocrats among essays…
witty, beautifully mannered and mellow’ Rumer Godden, New York Herald Tribune. Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.

Contemporary Writers

Here, in more than forty essays, are Woolf’s thoughts on her contemporaries in the art of fiction; reviewing and criticism; and one of her favorite themes, female novelists. Among the writers reviewed are Dorothy Richardson, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Theodore Dreiser. Preface by Jean Guiguet.

The Letters of Virgina Woolf

The penultimate volume of Woolf’s letters, when the author was between the ages of 50 and 53, covers the composition of the Years and the death of Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry. ‘Her wit flashes, often unexpectedly, in letters of almost every kind’ New Yorker. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index.

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

Among the most complete and moving documents of a legendary love affair, The Letters of Vita Sackville West and Virginia Woolf span nineteen years of flattery, flirtation, adoration, and frustration in the lives of two exceptional women writers. Opposites in many ways, Vita and Virginia knew each other by reputation when they met at a 1922 dinner party. The brooding, aristocratic Vita had already scandalized polite London with her lesbian affairs. Virginia, both more delicate and more ferocious than Vita, had recently published her first experimental novel, Jacob’s Room. Beautifully edited and annotated by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska, these 500 letters record the tentative beginnings of their relationship, the flush of new love, flashes of jealousy and anger, along with the confidences and gossip and worries of their daily lives all as fascinating to read now as they were when the pages fell fresh from the envelope. In 1928, Virginia published the novel Orlando, her longest love letter to Vita, which marked the end of the affair. They remained friends until Virginia’s death in 1941.

The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5 1929-1932

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 sequel to The Common Reader.

On Fiction

The only available edition of a collection of essays celebrating the ever popular pastime of reading and storytelling, from one of the 20th century’s greatest literary figures’Here, then, very briefly and with inevitable simplification, an attempt is made to show the mind at work upon a shelf full of novels and to watch it as it chooses and rejects, making itself a dwelling place in accordance with its own appetites. Of these appetites, perhaps, the simplest is the desire to believe wholly and entirely in something which is fictitious.’ Her readings sensitive, her prose style elegant, authoritative, and at times thoroughly opinionated, who better equipped than Virginia Woolf to ruminate on the art of fiction? In this selection of lesser known essays on reading and storytelling, Woolf turns her critical gaze on treasured favorites including ‘the four great women novelists Jane Austen, Emily Bront , Charlotte Bront , and George Eliot,’ and unearths some less familiar talents. Her discussion of differing approaches to reading is characteristically forward thinking, and pinpoints the joys of this favorite pastime, in all its guises.

A Passionate Apprentice

Covering the years 1897 1909, these journals complete the autobiographical sequence of Virginia Woolf’s diary and letters and provide a picture of the circumstances in which she taught herself her craft. Many of the incidents of these years were to profoundly influence the rest of her life and were to become recurring themes in her novels: the death of her father, trips to Spain, Italy and Greece, and first encounters with those who were to form the Bloomsbury group.

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