Woolf-Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories

One of the most distinguished critics and innovative authors of the twentieth century Virginia Woolf published two novels before this collection appeared in 1921. However it was these early stories that first earned her a reputation as a writer with the liveliest imagination and most delicate style of her time. Influenced by Joyce Proust and the theories of William James Bergson and Freud she strove to write a new fiction that emphasized the continuous flow of consciousness time's passage as both a series of sequential moments and a longer flow of years and centuries and the essential indefinability of character.Readers can discover these and other aspects of her influential style in the eight stories collected here among them a delightful feminist put-down of the male intellect in A Society and a brilliant and sensitive portrayal of nature in Kew Gardens. Also included are An Unwritten Novel The String Quartet A Haunted House Blue & Green The Mark on the Wall and the title story.In recent years Woolf's fiction feminism and high-minded sensibilities have earned her an ever-growing audience of readers. This splendid collection offers those readers not only the inestimable pleasures of the stories themselves but an excellent entrée into the larger body of Woolf's work.