Virginia Woolf

Emotions and thoughts of a woman, on the day she meets the man she loved, but did not marry.

A feminist manifesto by the great modernist writer contends that women's literature would be on a par with that of men, if women had the same levels of income, privacy, and experience as their counterparts. Her main illustration of this principle is a hypothetical sister to Shakespeare, who, even with the same talents as her brother, would have never been given the chance to display her talents to the world.

Twenty-four-year-old Rachel Vinrace is launched into a journey of self-discovery when she embarks on a sea voyage to South America with her aunt and uncle. Originally from a London suburb, she meets a menagerie of interesting people while on the trip and strikes up life-changing conversations with them. As her experiences start to shape her into a worldly woman, she begins to find her sense of self and determine what she wants most in the world.

In response to three requests for donations (to a peace society; to a woman's college rebuilding fund; to a society for obtaining employment for professional women) the author proposes that "the daughters of educated men" unite in opposition to man-made war.

A Room of One's Own. An examination of why "men have always had power, influence, wealth, and fame, while women have had nothing but children", and the proposal that women be provided with the two basics of freedom: a fixed income of 500 pounds per year and a room of one's own in which to write. Three Guineas. In response to three requests for donations (to a peace society; to a woman's college rebuilding fund; to a society for obtaining employment...

As Nurse Lugton dozes, the animals on the patterned curtain she is sewing come alive.

"Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing...