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To the Lighthouse is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), the plot of which being secondary to the philosophical reflections of the characters. It depicts two visits by the Ramsay family to their country house on the Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1910 and 1920. Among the man...

Mrs. Dalloway is the novel by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941). It is a masterpiece of the “golden age” of English modernism. It tells the story of one day in the life of middle-aged aristocrat Clarissa Dalloway; it also reveals events from her past. The content of the novel is not limited to the plot—...

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 224 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved. essential classics.Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious. hospitable and sociable on the surface. yet underneath troubl...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf’s own joyful holidays of her youth. ...

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found 'the figure of their dog made me laugh so, I couldn't resis...

Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters' minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the lighthouse. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. But as time passes, bringing w...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Orlando had become a woman - there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their i...

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in t...