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Mrs. Dalloway One of Woolf's most celebrated and popular novels, Mrs. Dalloway follows a woman's life through a single day, one that is also the last of a war veteran'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 manages to reveal much more; for it is the feeling behind these daily events and their juxtaposition with the unfolding suicide of Septimus Smith that gives the story its texture and richness. |
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The Voyage Out In the author's debut novel, young, free-spirited Rachel Vinrace departs London for a sea voyage to South America. Surrounded by a clutch of genteel companions -- among them her aunt Helen, who judges Rachel to be "vacillating," "emotional," and "more than normally incompetent for her years" -- Rachel displays a startling maturity when she finds her engagement to the writer Terence Hewet listing toward disaster. As she soon discovers, "tragedies come in the hungry hours." |
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A Room of One's Own Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one's own room. |
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Moments of Being This collection of brief autobiographical sketches offers fascinating glimpses of the writer's life. "A Sketch of the Past" is the longest and most significant of the pieces, giving an account of Virginia Woolf's early years in the family household at 22 Hyde Park Gate. It illuminates her relationship to her father, Leslie Stephen, who played a crucial role in her development as an individual and as a writer. |
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Virginia Woolf Hermione Lee The most thorough biography yet of Woolf and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. |
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Virginia Woolf: A Biography Quentin Bell The first major study of Woolf's life, written by her nephew. |
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The Hours Michael Cunningham The story of three women, including Woolf herself, this novel is inspired in part by Woolf's life and by her novel Mrs. Dalloway. |
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf Edited by Nigel Nicholson and Joanne Trautmann This is the first of a six-volume collection of Woolf's letters. |
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Howards End E. M. Forster A friend and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group, Forster wrote novels more conventionally structured than Woolf's, but no less influential. In this beautifully subtle work, two families -- the intellectual, left-wing Schlegels and the materialistic Wilcoxes, come to know each other by chance. When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home -- Howards End -- to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis is precipitated that takes years to resolve. |
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The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction Kate Chopin When it first appeared in 1899, The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel's frank portrayal of a woman's emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author's reputation and career. Many years passed before this short, pioneering work was recognized as a major achievement in American literature. |
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