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In a single afternoon’s walk, Virginia Woolf captures the infinite life of a garden…A couple pause among the flowerbeds, their thoughts drifting apart. A woman’s mind fixes on a small, troubling mark on the wall. A chance meeting becomes an imagined life, rich with longing and regret. In six luminous, experimental stories, Virginia Woolf remakes the short story as a space of transcendence. Moving fluidly between inner lives and outward scenes, Kew Gardens captures moments of consciousness as they shimmer, fracture and pass, revealing the beauty and strangeness of everyday existence.Includes the stories: Kew Gardens, The Mark on the Wall, An Unwritten Novel, Monday or Tuesday, The String Quartet and Blue & GreenBRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.
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The subtle complexities of Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’ continues to resonate for a new generation of readers today. ‘On Being Ill’ is a valuable book for everybody who wants to connect with illness through art and literature and look at it from a different perspective. Woolf’s original essay was first published exactly 100 years ago. In this collection contemporary authors reflect on this poignant work.
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In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman’s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
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This classic story by Virginia Woolf was modelled on her friend Vita Sackville-West’s personality. Orlando chooses her own sexual identity as she lives through three centuries as both a man and a woman.
On Being Ill 
