Virginia Woolf

A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors. Suspense and horror: 1. 'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire' - Arthur Conan Doyle 2. 'The Signalman' - Charles Dickens 3. 'Lost Hearts' - MR James 4. 'The Sealed Room' - Arthur Conan Doyle 5. 'Mrs Badgery' -...

Fantasy, love offering, exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story....

It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party....

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Natalie Dormer, best known for her standout role as Queen Margaery in Game of Thrones, as well as her roles in The Hunger Games and Captain America: The First Avenger. A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College...

To the Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction....

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge....

The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age....

Published in 1938, Three Guineas is Virginia Woolf’s powerful reckoning with war and tyranny, wherein she argues that women’s rights are inherently linked to the struggle against violence.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Ruth Wilson, star of Luther, Mrs Wilson and His Dark Materials. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Hermione Lee. To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a...

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman.

One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett....

The principal theme of this ambitious book is time, threading together three generations of the Pargiter family. The story begins on a day in 1880 in the household of Colonel Abel Pargiter....

A deeply thoughtful and unpretentious collection of literary essays, The Common Reader: First Series is Virginia Woolf’s celebration of the simple joy in reading for pleasure.

The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age....

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay, originally delivered in 1928 as two lectures at two of Cambridge University's women's colleges—Newnham College and Girton College.

Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s own modernist manifesto. A study of a young man’s life on the eve of the Great War, it is really a bomb thrown into the world of the conventional novel....

Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The book follows them as they develop from childhood tao maturity and follow different passions...

Based on two lectures Woolf delivered at the University of Cambridge, A Room of One’s Own compellingly argues for women’s intellectual freedom and the importance of financial independence. It is still considered one of the most powerful pieces of feminist writing to this day.

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M...

A bumper collection of accessible classics from the perennially popular BBC Radio 4 series This diverse, wide-ranging anthology features readings of 10 of the greatest books in the English language, taken from the BBC's Book at Bedtime and performed by a stellar cast of narrators. Here are...