The Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (Wordsworth Library Collection)

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolfs 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 central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolfs novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and childrens perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing classstructure in the period spanning the Great War. Orlando, the longest and most charming love letter in literature, playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolfs close friend and lover, Vita SackvilleWest.I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot, said Woolf of The Waves. Regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Other titles included in this book are: Jacobs Room, A Room of Ones Own, Three Guineas and Between the Acts.