Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story
ideas, trying to encapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form,
but rarely did she publish them. This volume brings together the stories
from her own collection 'Monday or Tuesday', together with stories that
later appeared individually in magazines and those from amongst her
papers that her widower, Leonard, thought sufficiently polished to put
before her readers.
Virginia Woolf was a luminous novelist, a prolific essayist and book
reviewer, and a diarist. With her husband Leonard, Woolf established and
ran the Hogarth Press which published works by influential modernist
writers. In their first five years, they published Katherine Mansfield,
T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Clive Bell, Roger Fry and Sigmund Freud.
Woolf's haunting writing, her succinct insights into feminist, artistic,
historical, political issues, and her revolutionary experiments with
points of view and stream-of-consciousness altered the course of
literature.