Leonard Woolf

Although Leonard Woolf has long been revered as one of the great literary minds of the 20th century, he is seldom remembered as a writer of fiction. While his novel The Village in the Jungle has the status of a minor classic, his superb collection of short stories dating back to his time as a colonial administrator in Ceylon has been almost completely forgotten. The stories provide disturbing commentaries about the disintegration of the colonial process...

"The Three Jews" by Leonard Woolf is a pretty straight forward parable about Jewish culture surviving within Anglican society. There are some interesting subtleties and questions posed but I think it inspires more curiosity about the author than the story itself. "The Mark on the Wall" is one of Virginia's famous flights. Is it "about" anything? Her flow of words, stream of consciousness spirits the reader away and makes one feel like they've fallen...

Extracts drawn by Virginia Woolf's husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years offer insight into the art and mind of the twentieth-century author.

In Virginia Woolf's lyrical, inventive last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England on the eve of World War II. "Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life." Between the Acts takes place on a June day in 1939 at Pointz Hall, the Oliver family's country house in the heart of England. In the garden, everyone from the village has gathered to present the annual pageant ??-?? scenes...