Orlando: A Biography

A single June day in post-war London follows Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for an evening party while the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Smith moves through his own crisis. Stream of consciousness at its peak.

Virginia Woolf

The Ramsay family at their summer house on the Isle of Skye over a decade. Three movements span a single afternoon, the passing of years, and a final return that revisits absence and memory.

Virginia Woolf

Six characters speak from childhood to age in interleaved soliloquies, framed by italicized seascapes. The most experimental of Woolf's novels and her most musical.

Virginia Woolf

A young man's life pieced together through the rooms he passes through and the people who notice him. The transitional novel where Woolf first lets character form by absence.

Virginia Woolf

Katharine Hilbery weighs an arranged engagement against a clerk's love in Edwardian London while questioning what a woman owes to her family's literary legacy. Woolf's most realist novel.

Virginia Woolf