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About the books:
Woolf in miniature which means Woolf at full intensity, compressed.
These stories do in five pages what most writers can't manage in five chapters: they make you feel the texture of consciousness, the way time bends around grief and love and ordinary rooms.
If the novels have felt like too much to start with, this is the door in.
If you already love her, this is the room you haven't been in yet.
Condition:
Good secondhand condition.
Wear to cover.
Mild age related tanning to pages.
Pages well bound.
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About the author:
Virginia Woolf (18821941)
Born in London into a thoroughly literary household her father Leslie Stephen edited the Dictionary of National Biography and her childhood home was a gathering point for Victorian intellectual life Woolf became one of the defining voices of literary Modernism and remains among the most technically radical novelists in the English language.
She wrote in the early decades of the twentieth century, in the shadow of the First World War and amid the ferment of the Bloomsbury Group, the loose London circle of writers, artists, and thinkers that included E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and the art critic Roger Fry, whose ideas about form and Post-Impressionism left a visible mark on her thinking about fiction. Russian literature was another deep current she and her husband Leonard translated and championed Dostoevsky and Chekhov at a time when they were barely known in English. Henry James and Laurence Sterne matter too, as predecessors in the art of interiority.
What she built from these influences was something new: a prose that moves by consciousness rather than plot, tracking the texture of a mind as it moves through time and perception. Her major novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando each solve the problem differently. Her essay A Room of One's Own is foundational feminist criticism that remains sharp nearly a century later.
She struggled with severe mental illness throughout her life and drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941. She was 59.
Her influence is essentially the whole of serious literary fiction written since: Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, Michael Cunningham, Maggie Nelson anyone working at the intersection of form and interiority is working in a space she helped create.
