Books with author Virginia Woolf

'Virginia Woolf: Masterpieces' contains:The Voyage OutTwo StoriesKew GardensNight and DayMonday or TuesdayJacob’s RoomMr. Bennett and Mrs. BrownThe Common ReaderMrs. DallowayTo the LighthouseOrlando: a biographyA Room of One’s OwnOn Being IllThe WavesA Letter to a Young PoetThe Common Reader IIFlush: a biographyWalter Sickert: a conversationThe YearsThree GuineasReviewingRoger Fry: a biographyBetween the ActsThe Death of the Moth, and other essaysA Haunted House, and other short storiesThe Moment, and other essaysThe Captain’s Death Bed, and other essays

“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 own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a steady income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create.With a Foreword by Mary Gordon

In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later. “A poetic masterpiece of the first rank” (Rebecca West). The source of a critically acclaimed 1993 feature film directed by Sally Potter. Index; illustrations.