The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the novel, but it is an art in itself. To take a story and distill its essence into just a few pages is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. This series looks at short stories from a variety of accomplished writers.
In this volume we examine the short stories of Virginia Woolf, many of which include elements of modernism like experimental writing and stream of consciousness, of which she is considered a pioneer, and act as an enlightening introduction to her longer fiction. Included here are "A Haunted House," "A Society," "An Unwritten Novel," "Kew Gardens," "The Mark on the Wall," and others.
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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, transformed the art of the novel. She was a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. The author of numerous novels, collections of letters, journals, and short stories, she was also an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form.
Richard Mitchley is an actor and narrator who has appeared in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet…, The Black Adder, and Doctor Who.
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.