Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own. An examination of why "men have always had power, influence, wealth, and fame, while women have had nothing but children", and the proposal that women be provided with the two basics of freedom: a fixed income of 500 pounds per year and a room of one's own in which to write. Three Guineas. In response to three requests for donations (to a peace society; to a woman's college rebuilding fund; to a society for obtaining employment...

As Nurse Lugton dozes, the animals on the patterned curtain she is sewing come alive.

"Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing...

'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works.

As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party, she remembers a summer in the past when she was a beautiful young woman. Her preparations are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long-ago summer. As the day of the party unfolds, Mrs. Dalloway's life also becomes strangely intertwined with a young man she never meets, but whose tragic fate strikes a chord of truth, deep in her soul, that she cannot deny.