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Listen to three free Virginia Woolf short audiobooks

Posted in audiobooks, books, tagged , , , , , , on Friday 14 October 2022| Leave a Comment »

Literary audiobook supplier Spiracle offers three of Virginia Woolf’s short works at no cost. You can listen to them at the links below.
  • “The Mark on the Wall,” read by Saffron Coomber. First published in 1917 with Leonard Woolf’s story “Three Jews” in the collection Two Stories.
  • “On Being Ill,” read by Saffron Coomber. First published in 1926 in magazines in both the UK and US. Four years later, the Hogarth Press published a slightly revised version as a stand-alone volume. It was the first volume the Woolfs hand set and printed in 11 years.
  • “How It Strikes a Contemporary,” read by Diana Quick. First published in 1922 in The Times Literary Supplement. It was later published by the Hogarth Press in The Common Reader (1925).

Spiracle also offers five Woolf novels as audiobooks at prices ranging from £10-£15: The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, and To the Lighthouse.

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Woolf is the reason to buy Harper’s

Posted in 21st century Woolf, short stories, Woolf sightings, You Tube, tagged , , , on Friday 23 August 2013| Leave a Comment »

Screen Shot 2013-08-22 at 9.00.04 PMRun, don’t walk, to the nearest newsstand to purchase the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar, UK edition. The reason is Woolf. The magazine will include a reprint of her short story “Lappin and Lapinova,” which she wrote exclusively for the magazine in 1939.

To introduce it, Woolf biographer Alexandra Harris recalls her literary love affair with Woolf and describes the true story behind the short story.

The link to Harris’s recollection was shared on the VWoolf Listserv. Here is what readers had to say:

my enchantment was triggered by `Lappin and Lapinova’ when I was a senior in college. I was mesmerized by the fairy tale of a failed marriage and then ended up writing my final paper forand `Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown. And the rest is history.”

“I was in graduate school in Madison at the University of Wisconsin, working on  Renaissance (as we called it then) literature.  I had never even heard  of Virginia Woolf.  A woman to whom I was entirely attracted asked me if I read her and I tried not to answer. I went right to the library and got To the Lighthouse because the object of my crush had mentioned that title.  I was completely stunned and amazed and just kept reading. As soon as I had a little wiggle room as a professor, I began teaching her to other young people who didn’t know who she was. The relationship with the woman only lasted 7 years, but my connection to Virginia continues to grow as I continue to age.”

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Mantex site adds Woolf short story study guides

Posted in short stories, study guides, tagged , , , , on Wednesday 10 April 2013| Leave a Comment »

Roy Johnson of Mantex Information Design wrote Blogging Woolf to say he has added a new section to his site that is devoted to individual tutorials and study guides on Virginia Woolf’s short stories.

Cover of "Monday or Tuesday (Hesperus Cla...

Cover of Monday or Tuesday (Hesperus Classics)

Here is what he has added so far:

Visit the Virginia Woolf at Mantex page. Woolf study guides on the site include:

Find more Bloomsbury Group materials, as well as biographical notes, study guides and literary criticism on twentieth century authors, including Woolf and other Bloomsbury Group members.

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“Kew Gardens” review on Pol Culture

Posted in short stories, tagged , on Wednesday 27 January 2010| Leave a Comment »

On Pol Culture, Robert Stanley Martin reviews “Kew Gardens,” a Virginia Woolf short story published in the volume Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories.

In his review, Martin says Woolf’s story, originally published privately in 1919, “may be the greatest of her short stories.” Read his review.

You can read his other posts discussing Woolf’s writings at the links below:

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