Taking family, friends and servants as her subjects, Virginia Woolf presents a series of impressions of the people around her. And as she describes their lives - including a piece on her nephew Julian Bell, and sketches on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Lady Strachey - she also reveals about her attitudes - to her writing, and to war and education.

'To the Lighthouse' is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works.

Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the common reader , someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She invesigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists.

Contains some of the finest and most enjoyable of the author's letters.

'I shall never forget the day I wrote The Mark on the Wall - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. The Unwritten Novel was the great discovery, however. That - again in one second - showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted it...I saw, branching out of the tunnel I made, when I discovered that method of approach, ...

First published in 1933, this work talks about Flush, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel. It provides us with the adventures of Flush, along with glimpses of the life of his owner and her days at Wimpole Street as an invalid, her courtship by Robert Browning, their elopement and life together in Italy.

To The Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's most accomplished novel, and her most autobiographical. It tells of one summer spent by the Ramsay family and their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse, remote, inaccessible, and external presence in a changing world. A projected visit to the lighthouse forms the heart of this extraordinary novel which, through the minds .

Created and edited by Justin Kestler and Ben Florman, SparkNotes Literature Guides provide analysis of (currently) 175 classic works of English and foreign language literature - novels, biographies, plays and poetry - that most commonly appear on examination syllabuses. These books provide the insights that today's students need to know.

A selection of essays from one of the writers of the Modernist movement.

A collection of five of the author's stories, which explore the role of women in society. From Victorian England to fifteenth-century Norfolk, and pre-War London to Mount Pentelicus, this work offers a series of impressions of women finding their place in the world around them.

Woolf's second novel paints a picture of the London intelligentsia before World War I. It portrays the author's sister Vanessa in the character of Katherine Hilbery, the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family who is trapped in a stifling environment and unable to express herself.

Published in 1915, this novel tells the story of a young Englishwoman, Rachel Vinrace, and her long sea voyage to South America, her engagement to Terence Hewet and her sudden illness and death. This is Virginia Woolf's first novel and came out after she had suffered a succession of severe mental crises.

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. Undermining the traditions and questioning a women's role, this novel is both a love story and a social comedy.

Clarissa Dalloway is the elegant, vivacious wife of a Member of Parliament. On a hot summer's day in London at the end of the First World War, she is preparing for a party that evening - her old lover, Peter Walsh, has just returned from India.

'Jacob's Room' tells the story of Jacob Flanders, a young man killed in the World War I. This new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel, with commentaries by contemporary writers, brings a new perspective to this classic work.

Published here for the first time, the original manuscript of 'Hyde Park Gate News', the paper written by Virginia, Vanessa and Thoby as children. Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. Serialisations have been run in major national publications. A unique insight

A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, sex, love and marriage. This is an exploration of a young woman's mind, signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries and complexities of life.