"...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old...

"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older."'Jacob's Room' (1922) is Virginia Woolf’s third novel and established her influence as a...

"Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky."A writer is trying to capture things in words,...

"Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts...

"Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married."Katharine Hilbery is a priviledged young woman at a crossroads. Should she marry the poet...

"Quando il ragazzo, poiché, ahimè, era certo un ragazzo - nessuna donna sui pattini sarebbe mai stata così veloce e potente - gli sfrecciò accanto...

Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrast the daily lives and romantic attachments of two...

The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda,...

The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the genteel Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present...

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and...