new to Modern Classics
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is now recognized as a major
twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key
figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist.
Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then
worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly
experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). From then on
her fiction became a series of brilliant and extraordinarily varied
experiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting the
relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and
history. She was particularly concerned with women's experience,
not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of
feminist polemic, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas
(1938). Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the
historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West,
the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family
saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). All these
are published by Penguin, as are her Diaries, Volumes I-V, and
selections from her essays and short stories.
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