Vigo Books » Virginia Woolf

Monday or Tuesday

admin12 — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:36:19 +0000

From the intense Blue & Green to the illusions of Kew Gardens, these twenty-three short stories all capture the adept experimental storytelling abilities of one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed writers.

A Room of One’s Own

admin12 — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:34:37 +0000

Virginia Woolf’s most strident feminist statement, A Room of One’s Own is based on a series of story-like lectures gave to Cambridge University in 1928 about women in fiction. In it Woolf asks why so few women wrote books or poetry in the past and sets out what she thinks is needed to correct literature’s gender imbalance.

The Years

admin12 — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:31:44 +0000

Virginia Woolf turns her attention to the nature of time in a story that weaves together the lives of three generations of a wealthy English family. It delves into the way death affects us, observes how people live their lives and questions the meaning of existence.

The Waves

admin12 — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:30:00 +0000

Poetic and experimental, The Waves examines the inner thoughts of three men and three women who are grappling with the death of their friend Percival. As the novel continues their thoughts converge on the inevitably of death and the connection between all people.

Orlando

admin12 — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:28:14 +0000

Considered one of Woolf’s most accessible works, Orlando tells the quirky story of an Elizabethan man who lives through to the 1920s but barely ages. Partially based on Woolf’s lesbian love affair with Vita Sackville-West, Orlando’s pacy tale comments on industrialisation, love and the connection between men and women.

Jacob’s Room

admin12 — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:26:28 +0000

In Jacob’s Room Woolf subverts the idea of the central character. Instead of making him the actor in her story, Woolf only lets us see Jacob as others do and in doing so raises questions about the very nature of his existence.

The Voyage Out

admin12 — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:24:38 +0000

Although The Voyage Out was her first novel, the roots of Woolf’s later development as a writer are already in evidence in this moving tale. Woolf’s story follows Rachel Vinrace, a 24-year-old Englishwoman who travels to South America where she enters a doomed love affair with an aspiring writer.

To the Lighthouse

admin12 — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:30:17 +0000

"With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past."

Mrs. Dalloway

admin12 — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:45:54 +0000

Delivered in Woolf’s trademark stream of consciousness, Mrs Dalloway charts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a prosperous politician’s wife as she plans an evening party, and how the actions of Septimus Smith, a traumatized war veteran, impinge on her world.

Night and Day

admin12 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:09:46 +0000

Set before the First World War, Virginia Woolf’s classic novel questions the conflict between the desires of society and of the individual through the story of two female friends. One torn between two potential lovers, the other dedicated to the struggle for women’s rights.