Woolf, Virginia

Contains complete texts of five short stories and eight essays with excerpts from longer fiction and non-fiction works of Virginia Woolf.

Presents a collection a five autobiographical memoirs written by Virginia Woolf over four decades that provides insight into the life of a major literary figure.

Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. Virginia Woolf is famous for her feminist and modernist fiction and nonfiction, despite being born in 1882 into the British Victorian world of claustrophobic respectability and strict hierarchy. Mrs. Dalloway was published in 1925 and the entire novel takes place in London on a June day in 1923. Mrs. Dalloway is shopping for a party she is giving that evening and she meets various characters from her past during the course of the day while she is shopping.

Virginia Woolf's classic essay that explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do.

Katharine Hilbery must decide whether she wants to marry a man she doesn't love but who is socially acceptable or a man who is poor but the true love she has been looking for.

The last novel written by English author Virginia Woolf, telling of the undercurrents swirling behind the scenes of the annual pageant at Pointz Hall, especially among unhappy Isa Oliver, her handsome husband Giles, and Mrs. Manresa, a guest who is pursuing him.

Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway, occupied with the last-minute details of party preparation, finds her thoughts on a very different route through the past.

Describes a party gathered at a house in England. In later years only caretakers have the house, and in the last part of the story the house is again filled with surviving family members.