Book description
'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any
more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing
some hideous crime.'
'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her
open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.'
Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction,
exploring the depths of human consciousness and creating a new
language of sensation and thought. Sometimes impressionistic,
sometimes experimental, sometimes brutally cruel, sometimes
surprisingly warm and funny, these five stories describe love lost,
friendships formed and lives questioned.
This book includes The Lady in the Looking Glass, A
Society, The Mark on the Wall, Solid Objects and
Lappin and Lapinova.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is a major twentieth-century author, a
great novelist, essayist and a key figure in literary history as a
feminist and a modernist. Her family and friends were writers and
artists and they later became known as the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf
suffered mental health problems throughout her life and, fearing another
outbreak of mental illness, drowned herself in 1941.
