About the Author

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a novelist, critic, and essayist whose works include such classics as A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Voyage Out (the latter available from the Modern Library in both cloth and paper).

Reviews

“Defoe’s excellence it is, to make me forget my specific class, character, and circumstances, and to raise me while I read him, into the universal man.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge