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In Woolf's first novel The Journey Out, we meet the Dalloways briefly. Clarissa Dalloway is essentially the same woman, only in this novel she comes to be known more through her interior monologue and through those of other characters in the novel.Born in London, Virginia Woolf was a novelist, short... More

With introductions by Eavan Boland and Maud Ellmann The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf cons... More

Mary Ann Evans who is better known by her pen name George Eliot was a leading British Victorian novelist. Eliot was known for her realism and keenness in developing psychological plots. Evans decided to write under a male pen name so that her work would be taken seriously. This is Eliot's last publi... More

This acclaimed novel marked the debut of one of the 20th century's most important writers. Woolf won instant, enduring success with this captivating exploration of a young woman's growing self-awareness. Less experimental than Woolf's later books, but highly representative of her style, it offers an... More

Based on Woolf's brother Thoby, who died in 1906, "Jacob's Room" follows the life of a fatherless boy from his childhood to his tragic death in World War I, and remains a shining example of Woolf's genius and literary daring. Revised reissue.Based on the life of her brother, this unforgettable book ... More

Mary Jane Holmes was an American writer living in the last half of the 1800's. She began teaching school at age 13. Her novels centered on domestic life. Holmes lived in Kentucky for two years and in 1856 she wrote she first novel, Tempest and Sunshine. The story begins: "It was the afternoon of a b... More

Virginia Woolf (ne 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 famou... More

NIGHT AND DAY is a romance about the nature of romantic of love itself; about the struggle to find and establish identity; about the struggle between the sexes and intellectual freedom as it applies to marriage. Woolf was a powerful thinker whose tales left lasting marks on our culture; one can't re... More