Synopsis
“I shall never forget the day I wrote The Mark on the Wall, all in a flash, as if flying after being kept stone breaking for months. The Unwritten Novel was a discovery, however. That, again in one second, showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted it... I saw, branching out of the tunnel I made, when I discovered that method and approach, Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway etc— How I trembled with excitement.” Virginia Woolf
Quirky, unrestrained, disturbing and surprising, this well curated collection of Virginia Woolf's earlier short stories is essential to understanding her development as a modernist writer. This collection includes: The Mark on the Wall, The String Quartet, A Haunted House, An Unwritten Novel, Blue & Green, Monday or Tuesday, A Society, Kew Gardens, and Solid Objects.
The thrill that Virginia Woolf got from these short stories is readily apparent to the reader. She wrote them in defiance of convention, with a heady feeling of liberation and with a clear sense that she was breaking new ground. She thought some of her short fiction might be 'unprintable' but, happily, she was mistaken.
Indeed, if she had not made her bold and experimental forays into the short story in the period leading up to the publication of Jacob's Room, it seems certain that her arrival as a great modernist novelist would have been delayed.
Virginia Woolf is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.
Her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own, with its dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Virginia Woolf suffered from severe bouts of depression throughout her life and took her own life by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.
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