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Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf, Fiction, Classics, Literary
Virginia Woolf
Hardcover (Wildside Press, March 1, 2003)Jacob Flanders died in the First World War. The life he left behind wasn't just unfinished, but unresolved: he'd never been able to reconcile his passsion for classical culture with the jarring reality of the world around him; never been able to comne to terms with lonelieness; never, in the end, been able to complete what passes for a rite of massage in a world still coming to grips with the reality of modernity (as, in the end, we still are today). All that remains of Jacob's life he bits of clutter that he left behind him -- and those who loved him must come to terms with those. If they can. If we can.
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The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, Fiction, Classics, Literary
Virginia Woolf
Hardcover (Wildside Press, May 1, 2003)Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway.
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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, Fiction, Classics, Literary
Virginia Woolf
Hardcover (Wildside Press, May 1, 2003)NIGHT AND DAY is a romance about the nature of romantic of love itself; about the struggle to find and establish identity; about the struggle between the sexes and intellectual freedom as it applies to marriage.