Virginia Woolf & August Nemo 
Masters of Prose – Virginia Woolf 

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author’s novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author’s life and work.This edition is dedicated to the British writer Virginia Woolf, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread commentary for ‘inspiring feminism’. Her works have been translated into more than 50 languages. A large body of literature is dedicated to her life and work, and she has been the subject of plays, novels and films. Woolf is commemorated today by statues, societies dedicated to her work and a building at the University of London.This book contains the following writings:Novels: Orlando; Mrs. Dalloway;Jacob’s Room; Night and Day.Short Stories: A Haunted House; Kew Gardens; An Unwritten Novel; Solid Objects; The Mark on the Wall; Mrs. Dalloway in the Bond Street; The Lady in the Looking Glass.Essays: A Room of One’s Own.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

About the author

Born into a privileged English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents. She began writing as a young girl and published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. She wrote modernist classics including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, as well as pioneering feminist works, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas. In her personal life, she suffered bouts of deep depression. She committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.