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The story starts on a train, when the narrator looks up from her newspaper ​and sees the woman seated in front of her. The sadness in the woman's face ​shapes up the narrator's own life and it's meaning.

Isabella is a happy, middle aged woman ​who has many friends. However as the story progresses ​we realise what seems to be the case, might not be the truth.

Kew Gardens is a story of four pairs of people and shows the oddness in the decisions that shape human lives.

A Heron speaks as if he's a human being, thinking more about everything that he sees and he tries to figure out the truth about existence.

Moments of Being was written by Virginia Woolf at various periods of her life and with various personal intentions, which explore Woolf's relationship with her past.

The story contains an impressionistic account of a string quartet performance​ joining the four parts of the ​western classical ​musical form​.

The Searchlight starts with a group of friends having a drink at an outdoor cafe in London one night. An elderly lady tells the story about her ancestor which sounds very strange. Is she really sane?

This story brings together Roderick Serle and Ruth Anning, two different personalities failing to communicate meaningfully. Serle is high with self-esteem and Anning on the other hand has retreated into a tiny world which excludes any dangers of engagement.

Milly Masters, a housekeeper is travelling in a third class carriage of a train and the story takes us to the family in the old country house where she works. Does she have some deeper connection with the dreadful family?

A Haunted House is a story of struggle, loss, commitment, connection, love and acceptance. It is narrated in the first person by an unnamed female narrator. A deceased man and woman roam the house for the majority of the story till they find what it is they are looking for.

The narrator notices a mark on the wall, and there starts his monologue on religion, self-reflection, nature, and uncertainties of life.

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay, originally delivered in 1928 as two lectures at two of Cambridge University's women's colleges—Newnham College and Girton College. Through the use of several metaphors, lauded author Virginia Woolf explores the social injustices and structures that prevent women from engaging in free expression and contributing to literature.

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all. In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.

Orlando: A Biography is a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles, and sexual politics in a way few books have before or since. Inspired by the life of Woolf's friend and lover Vita Sackville-West—herself an accomplished poet and novelist—the story follows the life of an aristocratic nobleman who changes from man to woman and goes on to live for centuries, meeting all of the most influential and powerful figures in English history.

Es la quinta novela de Virginia Woolf, publicada el 5 de mayo de 1927. Esta novela es un hito del alto modernismo. El texto, centrado en la familia Ramsay y sus visitas a la isla de Skye en Escocia entre 1910 y 1920, manipula hábilmente el tiempo y la exploración.

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was a feminist, pacifist, anti-fascist and English writer born in South Kensington, London. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors, literary critics, and pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. This is the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf, a talk called, "Craftsmanship."

Presented here are 3 short works by Virginia Woolf, each a unique consideration of the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The essays included are: The Father: Woolf's ruminations of family and, particularly, the father within the works of Dostoyevsky. More Dostoyevsky: Further thoughts on Dostoyevsky's work, an author of whom she once wrote “It is directly obvious that he is the greatest writer ever born." In Cranford: A comedic exploration of Dostoyevsky's work where Woolf transplants the great master into English provincial life to explore the unique nature of his work and the English nature.

«Come possiamo combinare le parole vecchie in nuove sequenze, così che esse sopravvivano, che creino bellezza, che dicano la verità?» Era questo, per Virginia Woolf, «il problema» del linguaggio letterario. Problema alla cui soluzione si dedicò con la sua riflessione teorica e con la pratica narrativa, alla ricerca di una frase elastica e flessibile, una frase femminile.

En La marca en la pared, Virginia Woolf lleva al lector a un viaje introspectivo, observando una mancha en la pared. La narradora, mientras intenta identificar la marca, se sumerge en una serie de reflexiones y pensamientos que abarcan desde la naturaleza de la vida hasta cuestiones filosóficas. La historia es una obra maestra del monólogo interior, representando una exploración íntima de la mente humana, que culmina en una revelación inesperada sobre la marca.