![]() ![]() a book for a lifetime" - Christine Dwyer Hickey. The Early Novels.: The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call 'consciousness'." - The Guardian Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. ![]() "Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary modernism, the 1920s. "No plainer manifestation of the modernist trend in contemporary English fiction may be found than in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room." - The New York Times. Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path." (E. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, The Hours.) Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. "We are trembling on the verge of one of the great ages of English literature." - Virginia Woolf. ![]()
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