Virginia Woolf

‘But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one’s own?’ A Room of One’s Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work […]

New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf’s groundbreaking experimental novel. Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks […]

Discover one of the most famous and ground-breaking pieces of twentieth century literature about one day in the mind of woman as she prepares to give a party. In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman’s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that […]

Virginia Woolf’s most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality. **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By […]

Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it’ Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves. The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow […]

The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was the most popular of […]

A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, The New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood. To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow of war, […]

Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf’s greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel’s opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family […]

Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing and under what conditions they might break […]

Mrs Dalloway är en tidlös klassiker, läst av generation efter generation, och tillhör den moderna litteraturhistoriens mest betydande verk med sin innovativa berättarteknik.

In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day, impression by impression, minute by minute, as Clarissa Dalloway’s and Septimus Smith’s worlds look set to collide – this classic novel is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. ‘She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being […]

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf’s fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider…His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he […]

Vågorna [The Waves, 1931] är en av Virginia Woolfs mest nyskapande romaner och av många betraktad som hennes mest komplexa. Sex vänner följer varandra från morgon till kväll, från barndom till medelålder