Series: Virginia Woolf Library

The annotated, authorised edition of Virginia Woolf's celebrated Mrs. Dalloway, named one of Time's 100 Best Novels, features commentary by Women's Studies professor Bonnie Kime Scott. In this pioneering stream of consciousness novel, a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life unfolds. Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party, yet...

"Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." As this centuries-spanning tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth I's court. By the close, three centuries have passed, and he will have transformed into a thirty-six-year-old woman in the year...

"I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me." Innovative and deeply poetic, this landmark work of literary fiction, The Waves, is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. It begins with six children—three boys and three girls—playing in a garden by the sea, and follows their lives as they grow up, experience friendship and love, and...

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her...

The Waves is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece of experimental fiction, standing with those few works of twentieth-century literature that have created unique forms of their own. In deeply poetic prose, Woolf traces the lives of six children from infancy to death who fleetingly unite around the unseen figure of a seventh child, Percival. Allusive and mysterious, The Waves...