'The window panes reflected apples,reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass' Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's daring experimentations with style and form more evident than in her short stories,which shimmer and flash with their author's peculiar genius. Collected by Leonard Woolf and published after her death,this is a complete collection of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction. It is a fascinating and vivid introduction for readers new to Woolf,and a necessary companion for devotees. Includes'A Haunted House','Kew Gardens','A Mark on the Wall'and 42 other pieces. Edited,with introductions and notes by Susan Dick.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099442165Number of pages: 336Weight: 240 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 24 mm
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Here is the precursor of the experiments which are to fill her future novels,where the writer will evaporate and condense solid objects over her literary Bunsen burner in solutions of time or lightWith Joyce and Eliot,Woolf has shaped a literary centuryThey seem as perfect,and as functional for all their beauty,as spider webs. Indeed they were made for like purpose: to trap and dissect living morsels in the form of palpitating moments of time,instantaneous perceptions,brief visions of othersVirginiaWoolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must beincluded with Joyce and Proust in the realisation of experimentalachievements that have completely broken with traditionVirginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism,the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouseshowed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinarylife. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party,aday on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associationsand ideas that we call "consciousness"
Virginia Woolf
A titan of twentieth-century literature,a feminist icon and a figurehead of the modernist movement in Britain,Virginia Woolf remains one of the most daringly experimental writers in print. Her works include Mrs Dalloway,To the Lighthouse and Orlando and the pioneering non-fiction collection A Room of One's Own.
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