Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought...

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously,...

Phyllis and Rosamond -- The mysterious case of Miss V. -- The journal of Mistress Joan martyn -- Memoirs of a novelist -- The mark on the wall -- Kew Gardens -- The evening party -- Solid objects -- Sympathy -- An unwritten novel -- A haunted house -- A society -- Monday or Tuesday -- The string quartet -- Blue & green -- A woman's college from outside -- In the orchard -- Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street -- Nurse Lugton's curtain -- The widow and the...

Rachel Vinrace embarks on a sea voyage to South America and falls in love with an aspiring writer.

The stories found in A Haunted House reflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as an enlightening introduction to the longer fiction of this pioneer novelist. Gathering works from the previously published Monday or Tuesday, as well as stories published in American and British magazines, this book compiles some of the best shorter fiction of one of the most important writers of our time.

At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships.

The captivating and romantic story based on the critically-acclaimed Virginia Woolf novel of the same name.