Virginia Woolf, Author , intro. by Francine Prose. Ecco $16.95 (77p) ISBN 978-0-06-088128-3
As novelist Prose notes in her perceptive introduction, Woolf demonstrates a huge affection for her hometown—like her heroine Clarissa Dalloway, whose stream-of-consciousness litany at the opening of Mrs. Dalloway
famously listed London as...
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Virginia Woolf, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-15-118983-0
Never before collected in a single volume, Woolf's 46 short stories demonstrate her fondness for experimenting with narrative forms and voices. Arranged chronologically, the pieces range from tales with traditional plot lines to denser interior...
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Virginia Woolf. Paris Press (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-930464-13-1
“In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality,” writes Woolf, and she proves her observation correct in this essay (originally published in 1930), which leaps from observations of clouds to heaven to Shakespeare in stream-of-consciousness prose
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Virginia Woolf, read by Eileen Atkins. AudioGO, library edition, unabridged, three CDs, 3.75 hrs., $49.95 ISBN 978-1-4458-4609-5
Narrator Eileen Atkins turns in a pitch-perfect performance in this charming audio production of Woolf’s biography of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel, Flush. The story uses the dog—one of the most famous animals in literary history—as a...
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Virginia Woolf, Author, Jane Austen, Author, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Author . CSA Word $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-934997-28-4
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an anthology of women writers must be in want of Jane Austen. “The Watsons,” a precursor to Emma, is the obligatory entry, but it is lesser Austen. The selection veers off the beaten path, by...
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Virginia Woolf, Author, Juliet Stevenson, Read by , read by Juliet Stevenson. Naxos Audio $34.98 (0p) ISBN 978-962-634-866-6
British actress Juliet Stevenson makes for a better reader of Woolf's words than Nicole Kidman's Oscar-winning turn as Woolf in The Hours
. Stevenson carefully sorts through Woolf's famously tangled modernist masterpiece about the...
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Virginia Woolf, read by Juliet Stevenson, Naxos Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-962-634-133-9
As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party in 1920s London, she is unexpectedly reunited with her old friend Peter Walsh in a novel that shifts among the inner monologues of its many characters and is darkened by the terrors and hallucinations of
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Virginia Woolf, Author, Anne O. Bell, Author, Woolf, Author Mariner Books $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-15-661912-7
Woolf's diaries of 1915-1941, abridged to a fifth of their original published size, include portraits of T. S. Eliot and Katherine Mansfield; comments on sales and reviews of her books; pleasant musings and acerbic remarks. According to PW , ``The...
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Virginia Woolf, Author, Julie Vivas, Illustrator Gulliver Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205048-1
Virginia Woolf fans may be curious to discover her picture-book tale of magic, Nurse Lugton's Curtain, first published in a collection in 1965; and Julie Vivas's illustrations first appeared with the text in 1991. Nurse Lugton falls asleep while
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Virginia Woolf & Quentin Bell, edited by Claudia Olk. Univ. of Chicago, $18 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7123-5891-0
Between the years 1923-1927 Woolf and her young nephew Bell periodically collaborated on a satirical family newspaper read for the amusement of all at holidays, special occasions, or over breakfast. These charming supplements are reproduced here in...
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Virginia Woolf, Author, Julian Bell, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-296783-3
Mrs. Gage hears of her brother's death and journeys to collect her inheritance, a house and some 3000 sterling. Her dog was left behind; she is devoted to him and the other animals, despite her poverty. Her brother, on the other hand, was not only...
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Virginia Woolf, Author, Liz Vandoren, Editor, Julie Vivas, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200545-0
Nurse Lugton falls asleep over her sewing, and the piece--decorated with people and animals--comes alive. A ``great ogress,'' Lugton has placed an enchantment on the cloth; its ``inhabitants'' are free only when she snores five times, but must...
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Virginia Woolf, Author, Virginia Leishman, Read by , read by Virginia Leishman. Recorded Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4193-6732-8
It's wondrous to listen to a fine reading of a long-loved novel. Leishman makes masterly use of volume, timbre and resonance to distinguish between characters and draw us into the emotional swings and vibrations of the internal musings of each....
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Anne Olivier Bell, Author, Quentin Bell, Introduction by, Virginia Woolf, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (516p) ISBN 978-0-15-161894-1
Woolf's diaries of 1915-1941, published in five volumes between 1977 and 1984, were swiftly written whenever she had the time and inclination to record her dismay or delight, visits or visitors, encounters with creative minds, society ladies and...
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