Modern Classics Selected Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141183136 ISBN 13: 9780141183138

Publisher: Penguin Classic, 2000

Synopsis

Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of 'Solid Objects' through the fragile impressionism of 'Kew Gardens' to the abstract exploration of consciousness in 'The Mark on the Wall'.

About this title

About the Author:

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is now recognised as a major 20th century author, a great novelist and essayist, and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist.

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was a major modernist novelist and the centre of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves. She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including A Room of One's Own (1929), a passionate feminist essay. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classic
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141183136
• ISBN 13: 9780141183138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Kemp Sandra