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Orlando, an English nobleman at the start, defies nature, lives over 400 years, undergoes a gender transformation--all a mix of sex, adventure, tight humor, and illusion.
In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper's defining voices was Virgin...
At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships.
Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway--a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she...
THE HOURS tells the story of three women : Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923 ; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying fro...