Woolf, Virginia

A selection of essays, sketches, and short stories by English author Virginia Woolf, originally published in 1942, the year after her death.

Contains a three-part essay, written in the 1930s, in which the author responds to three separate requests for donations to a women's college building fund, a society to promote the employment of women, and an organization devoted to the prevention of war.

Contains forty-five selections of her short stories and sketches presented chronologically.

Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events - the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness.

A voyage to South America undertaken by English tourists parallels with a young woman's painful journey from childish naivete to maturity.

Virginia Woolf's third novel about a boy who comes of age in pre-war Europe.