Virginia Woolf

A collection of early short stories that first appeared in 1921, written in a continuous flow of consciousness and the essential indefinability of character.

Eight Stories

Monday Or Tuesday

Marcy Pursell 

I have never read Virginia Woolf before this. I chose to read one of her books as part of a book challenge prompt "Famous Author You’ve Avoided." I first tried to read 'A Room of One's Own' on Kindle, and couldn't get very far before DNFing it because it was too stream of consciousness, and the formatting was terrible to the point I didn't know what was going on. From there, I searched for the shortest book of hers I could find to replace it, and found Monday or Tuesday. I powered through, but I have no idea what this book was about, other than six or seven short stories, that are all jumbled. I now know I'm not a fan of Woolf's style, and will not read her in the future.

Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf is a collection of 8 short stories first published in 1921. Apparently, when it was originally published, the author's husband called it one of the worst printed books ever published, because it contained so many errors (these were corrected in later editions). The stories included in this collection are as follows: A Haunted House; A Society; Monday or Tuesday; An Unwritten Novel; The String Quartet; Blue and Green; Kew Gardens; and, The Mark on the Wall.

Monday or Tuesday

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Sam Spott

"The Society" is a four-star short story in what's more of a two-star collection.

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Saad E. Saad

Mayra Melo

Woolf's only collection of short fiction published during her lifetime, presented with pictures and a section on her life and works "Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees . . . one’s happiness, one's reality?" Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development of themes that would blossom in her later masterpieces. From the impressionist description of four groups of people walking by a flowerbed in the botanic gardens at Kew to the soaring flight of a heron above the teeming life of towns and cities below, and the reveries of a woman as she looks at a mark on the wall, the eight pieces included in this volume showcase Woolf's inimitable observational powers and her boldly modern style of writing.

Monday Or Tuesday Eight Stories

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