Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life

The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life

by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was already an accomplished novelist and critic when she was commissioned by the British edition of Good Housekeeping to write a series entitled "Six Articles on London Life." Originally published bimonthly, beginning in December 1931, five of the essays were eventually collected and published in 1981. The sixth essay, "Portrait of a Londoner," had been missing from Woolf's oeuvre until it was... (more)

Night And Day

by Virginia Woolf

Set in London before World War I, this novel explores the truth of feelings and particularly the nature of love. It is, in that sense, a love story, but in the hands of Virginia Woolf, it transcends conventional romance to pose a series of crucial questions about women, intellectual freedom, and marriage.

York Notes on "Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf (York Notes)

by John Mepham

Mrs Dalloway (Quality Paperback Edition)Virginia Wolf

Mrs Dalloway (Quality Paperback Edition)

by Virginia Wolf

This edition has a forward of eight pages by Maureen Howard. As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from... (more)

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse explores the subjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides for the Ramsay family.

Night and Day

by Virginia Woolf

True and Complete Edition: Woolf portrays the fascinations of self-discovery through relationships with other people, and she also looks into the intricacies of love--are we aware of love? Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she struggles... (more)

To The Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

The NORTON ANTHOLOGY of ENGLISH LITERATURE (Romantic Period and The Victorian Age, VOLUME 2)

Mrs. Dalloway

by VIRGINIA WOOLF

Novel explores the thought and action in one day of a woman's life.

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

With introductions by Carol Ann Duffy and Valentine Cunningham

TO THE LIGHTHOUSEVIRGINIA WOLF

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

by VIRGINIA WOLF

Orlando : a biography

by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's exuberant 'biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the 'life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence;... (more)

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman?s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway?s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. For it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so memorable. Foreword by Maureen... (more)

Room of Ones Own Three Guineas

by Virginia Woolf

"A Room of One's Own", based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. "Three Guineas" was published almost a decade later and breaks new ground in its discussion of men,... (more)

BLOOMSBURY - A HOUSE OF LIONSLeon Edel

BLOOMSBURY - A HOUSE OF LIONS

by Leon Edel

The Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (Wordsworth Library Collection)

The Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (Wordsworth Library Collection)

by Virginia Woolf

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the... (more)

Virginia Woolf (Contemporary Studies in Literature)Thomas S.W. Lewis

Virginia Woolf (Contemporary Studies in Literature)

by Thomas S.W. Lewis

Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

by Virginia Woolf

These early journals record Virginia Woolf's "sublime trajectory" (Bloomsbury Review) from a gifted adolescent to a professional writer and complete the magnificent self-portrait provided by her published letters and diaries. Edited and with a Preface and Introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska; Index.

Sketches in Pen and InkVanessa BELL

Shelfari Book Activity

Browse Subjects: virginia woolf

Top Books

by Virginia Woolf

by Virginia Woolf

by John Mepham

by Virginia Wolf

by Virginia Woolf

by Virginia Woolf

by Virginia Woolf

by VIRGINIA WOOLF

by Virginia Woolf

by VIRGINIA WOLF

by Virginia Woolf

by Virginia Woolf

by Virginia Woolf

by Leon Edel

by Virginia Woolf

by Thomas S.W. Lewis

by Virginia Woolf

by Vanessa BELL