Product Description

A collection of eight deliberately fragmentary and experimental sketches, 'Monday or Tuesday' remains unique in being the only volume of short stories that Virginia Woolf published herself, and follows on from Hesperus' publication of the undiscovered 'Carlyle's House and Other Sketches'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #531594 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .31" h x 4.88" w x 7.82" l, .26 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 88 pages

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Review
'In her writing career, Virginia Woolf developed a startling, original style that chases thought and fires the moment; she makes old hurts new and freshens the dim ideas of modern life. This style bloomed in experimental novels like Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, but prior to writing those books, Woolf created a number of short fictions, exquisite pieces in which the seeds of her new approach quickened into life. In miniature, they display all the intensity and fleetness of Woolf s greatest works. She gathered and printed these stories in Monday or Tuesday, the only collection to be published in her lifetime. Hesperus Press, in its excellent and intriguing line of short works by major authors, has recreate Monday or Tuesday as a slim volume that tempts one to carry it always, like a talisman of greatness. Monday or Tuesday richly conveys Woolf s generous experiments in writing. And though it be but little, it is fierce.' --watermarkbooks.com

From the Publisher
Only single-volume edition available

From the Author
When I first came to Virginia Woolf’s novels, I confess I found them frustrating. Having grown up in a feminist household, with at least two copies of A Room of One’s Own, I had always looked forward to exploring her fiction. Yet when I did, so much of it seemed rather tightly controlled (even the stream-of-consciousness parts of the narrative) and character-driven. I longed for the excitement, the arrogance, the playfulness, the ideas of her best non-fiction and critical work. I abandoned the novels, returned to them, and abandoned them again several times.
Perhaps this collection is the missing link. It has the excitement in abundance, intermingling with Woolf’s usual leitmotifs: domesticity, tea, lumps of sugar, gloves, layers, interruptions, dots, dashes, thoughts that bleed into one another like colours, making new thoughts. And always war. It is poignant to note the many references in this text to the First World War, knowing how Woolf would react to the Second. Perhaps this is another important link with Woolf and her work. War, as we are learning all over again, is terrifying: a backdrop that, once in place, cannot be changed.- From the Foreword by Scarlett Thomas