The Virginia Woolf Collection

5-Book Paperback Boxed Set

9781398852112

Arcturus Publishing Limited

Multiple-component retail product, slip-cased $39.99

Overview

This wonderful 5-book box-set brings together the most celebrated works of Virginia Woolf, presented with vibrant contemporary cover designs.

Virginia Woolf was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, a member of literary set the Bloomsbury Group and one of the founders of the Modernist movement. A great stylist, she experimented with plot and structure in her novels which dealt exuberantly with her great themes: the balance of power between the sexes, England's social hierarchy and the consequences of war.

Woolf lived an extraordinary life at an extraordinary time in human history, and this classic collection contains the core of her innovative and influential output:

• The Voyage Out, a tale of love, loss and self-discovery onboard ship.
• Mrs Dalloway, a moving and introspective portrait of life in interwar London.
• To the Lighthouse, a modernist tour-de-force evolving from a family's trips to a lighthouse on the Isle of Skye.
• Orlando, the satirical story of the life and travails of a 300-year-old man-turned-woman.
• A Room of One's Own, the quintessential feminist essay on the injustices women face.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classic Collections series features delightful, high-quality paperback box sets of classic works of literature with striking contemporary cover designs.

Author Bio

Virginia Woolf, who was to become a major figure in the Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals, was born into an intellectual family in 1882. Her mother died when she was 13 and the death of her half-sister Stella two years later led to her first nervous breakdown. Woolf suffered from fragile mental health all her life and on 28 March 1941, after filling the pockets of her overcoat with stones, she walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself.