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SELECTED STORIES BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

Virginia Woolf
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This Collection Underline Her Search For Fresh Ways of Presenting The Relationship Between Individual Lives & The Forces of Society And History.

Remarks Free Cover-Pages Wrapping
ISBN 9788129135186
Book Condition WELL USED
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher RUPA
Publication Date 01 Aug 2018
Pages 146
Weight 0.30 kg
Dimension 20 × 13 × 1.5 cm
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A collection of short stories by the author of “Mrs Dalloway” and “To The Lighthouse”. Often overlooked by the prominence of her novels and diaries, these short stories underline her search for fresh ways of presenting the relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and history.
 
Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the ‘swarm and confusion of life’.


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.
 
Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of ‘Solid Objects’ through the fragile impressionism of ‘Kew Gardens’ to the abstract exploration of consciousness in ‘The Mark on the Wall’.
 
Virginia Woolf was a luminous novelist, a prolific essayist and book reviewer, and a diarist. With her husband Leonard, Woolf established and ran the Hogarth Press which published works by influential modernist writers. In their first five years, they published Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Clive Bell, Roger Fry and Sigmund Freud. Woolf’s haunting writing, her succinct insights into feminist, artistic, historical, political issues, and her revolutionary experiments with points of view and stream-of-consciousness altered the course of literature.
 
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882, the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen. Her early education was provided at home, where she had the free run of her father’s extensive library. She suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, step-sister, father and favourite brother, leaving her prone to mental illness for the rest of her life.
 
During the years leading up to, Virginia Woolf lived in Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, where she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton, J.M. Keynes and Roger Fry. Together they founded the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual circle which was to profoundly influence the development of the avant-garde in Britain.
She married the writer Leonard Woolf in 1912, and they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the works of T.S. Eliot, the earliest translations of Freud, as well as works by Virginia Woolf herself.
 
Virginia Woolf’s first novel, ‘The Voyage Out’, appeared in 1915, followed by ‘Night and Day’ (1919) and the highly experimental ‘Jacob’s Room’ (1922). Despite recurring bouts of depression, her literary output over the next twenty years was extraordinary.
 
She wrote her major novels during this period, including ‘Mrs Dalloway’ (1925), ‘To the Lighthouse’ (1927), ‘Orlando’ (1928), ‘The Waves’ (1931) and ‘Between the Acts’ (1941). Her writing was particularly concerned with women’s experience, not only in her novels but also in her literary criticism and essays, most notably her two masterpieces of feminist polemic, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929) and ‘Three Guineas’ (1938).
 
In March 1941, her mental condition having deteriorated alarmingly and unable to face another bout of illness, Virginia Woolf took her own life. By the time of her death she had gained a prominent and enduring place in English letters, as a great novelist and essayist, feminist and modernist.
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