Virginia Woolf

A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors....

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

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

Set in post-First World War Britain, Woolf’s masterpiece follows Clarissa Dalloway, a vivacious yet self-reflective upper-class woman, through a single day in her life. Preparing for a party that very evening, Clarissa keeps busy by moving through the streets of London...

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

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

A spirited new version of Virgina Woolf’s Orlando adapted with a distinctly queer point of view. This adaptation revels in the origin of the story as a love letter from Woolf to Vita Sackville West....

Street Haunting is more than a stroll through the city—it’s a meditation on how we see the world, and how the world, in turn, shapes who we are.

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness....

A small, dark speck becomes the starting point for a cascade of thought—quiet, precise, wandering. In a room with a fire, a cigarette, and silence thick as dust, a mind drifts from memory to philosophy, from loss to structure, from trees to snails.

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past....

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....

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....

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

This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar....

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

This wonderful collection of 18 short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names....

A bumper collection of accessible classics from the perennially popular BBC Radio 4 series....

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives....