The Virginia Woolf Collection

Title in This Set:

1. The Voyage Out;
2. Mrs Dalloway;
3. To the Lighthouse;
4. Orlando;
5. A Room of One's Own.

The Voyage Out
In 1905, the naïve young woman Rachel Vinrace embarks on a journey to South America that will change her life forever As the long sea voyage proceeds, she connects with her fellow travellers and discovers the true meaning of love.

Filled with a series of exceptional character portraits, Woolf uses the book to comment on the absurdities of Edwardian life and to explore the competing desires for freedom, intellectual stimulation, and romantic passion. Woolf's first novel is at once an insightful exploration of the female mind and a critique of a society that used gender to confine a person to a particular role.

Mrs Dalloway
The elegant Clarissa Dalloway is putting the finishing touches on her house as she prepares to host a high-society party in the evening. Meanwhile, Septimus Smith struggles with the after-effects of shell- shock. At first glance, the two could not appear to be more different - Dalloway is a middle- aged woman at home in the high-flying lifestyle of the prosperous upper classes, while Smith is poor, young, and traumatised The two narratives interweave to tell a haunting tale of life in interwar London.

Lyrical, revolutionary, and extraordinarily insightful, this pivotal work showed what was possible in the modern novel.

To the Lighthouse
The Ramsay family first visit the Isle of Skye in 1910. Six-year-old James wants to go to the lighthouse they can see from their window and his mother tells him they'll go the next day if the weather permits...

Following in the footsteps of Marcel Proust and James Joyce, this modernist tour-de-force questions who and what we are and how we perceive the world as we trudge through time.

A haunting and beautiful meditation on the transience of life, absence and the inevitability of death, To the Lighthouse is a psychological masterpiece from one of the world's greatest writers.

Orlando
Inspired by the life of Woolf's lover, Vita Sackville- West, Orlando is the stunning tale of a 300-year-old poet.

Against the backdrop of some of the most important moments of history, the titular character begins his life as a rowdy nobleman who delights in enjoying the privileges his
status affords him. When he wakes one morning to discover that he is now a woman, he retains his joie de vivre.

A wildly entertaining commentary on gender and history, this book acts as a magic mirror revealing how life and art constantly change but forever remain the same.

A Room of One's Own
One of the greatest arguments for female emancipation, A Room of One's Own began as a lecture series at Cambridge University defending women's independence. In this extended essay, Virginia Woolf brings to life the many issues facing women of her era and pioneered the path toward a more equal future.

Passionate, insightful, and beautifully written, A Room of One's Own is a tour-de-force by one of the 20th century's greatest writers.