Set on the English coast against the vivid backdrop of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. The characters are almost imperceptibly revealed through the kaleidoscopic accumulation of their reflections on themselves and each other. Regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, The Waves was partially written in order to exorcise her private ghosts as the central, yet absent, character of Percival represents her brother Thoby, who died in 1906. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental and thrilling.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.

One of the greatest literary achievements of the 20th century and the author's most popular novel. The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles.

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works.

Taken from "The Common Reader," these essays take the form of a series of reflections on diverse literary topics, brought to life by Woolf's extensive knowledge, lively wit, and piercing insight. "For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not only difference of race and tongue but a tremendous breach of tradition."

"Three Guineas" is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation. Annotated and with an introduction by Jane Marcus

The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship， love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work， The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby， who died when he was twenty-six.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL
The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters， a large middle-class London family， from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endures and remembers heart-break， loss， radical change and stifling conformity， marriage and regret. Written in 1937， this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime， and is a powerful indictment of 'Victorianism' and its values.

This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own， first published in 1929， is a witty， urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women， particularly women writers. The sequel， Three Guineas， is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism.

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.

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay， the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay， together with their children and assorted guests， are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life. One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth-century， To the Lighthouse is often cited as Virginia Woolf's most popular novel.

Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to bring the Postimpressionist movement from France to England and America. Index; illustrations.

A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). "Exquisitely written" (New Yorker); "The riches of this book are overwhelming" (Christian Science Monitor). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.

Virginia Woolf was already an accomplished novelist and critic when she was commissioned by the British edition of Good Housekeeping to write a series entitled "Six Articles on London Life." Originally published bimonthly, beginning in December 1931, five of the essays were eventually collected and published in 1981. The sixth essay, "Portrait of a Londoner," had been missing from Woolf's oeuvre until it was rediscovered at the University of Sussex in 2004. Ecco is honored to publish the complete collection in the United States for the first time. </p>
A walking tour of Woolf's beloved hometown, The London Scene begins at the London Docks and follows Woolf as she visits several iconic sites throughout the city, including the Oxford Street shopping strip, John Keats's house on Hampstead Heath, Thomas Carlyle's house in Chelsea, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and the Houses of Parliament. </p>
These six essential essays capture Woolf at her best, exploring modern consciousness through the prism of 1930s London while simultaneously painting an intimate, touching portrait of this sprawling metropolis and its fascinating inhabitants. </p>

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman. Jacob is presented in glimpses, in fragments, as Woolf breaks down traditional ways of representing character and experience. The novel's composition coincided with the consolidation of Woolf's interest in feminism, and she criticizes the privileged thoughtless smugness of patriarchy, 'the other side', 'the men in clubs and Cabinets'. Her stylistic innovations are conscious attempts to realize and develop women's writing and the novel dramatizes her interest in the ways both language and social environments shape differently the lives of men and women. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted and light-handed teasing out of the assumptions that lie behind the normal conventions for writing about a fictional or historical life. In this novel, Virginia Woolf plays loose and fast: Orlando uncovers a literary and sexual revolution overnight.

要说清楚这本书的来龙去脉实在是有点绕，它跟电影《时时刻刻》有何关系呢？
先说电影《时时刻刻》，该电影根据美国杰出作家迈克尔·坎宁安1998年的同名小说改编，该小说获得次年的普利策奖。小说围绕《Mrs.Dalloway（一般被译为“达洛维夫人”）》作者伍尔芙，讲述三个女人一天中的时时刻刻：伍尔芙在严重的神经衰弱影响下创作《达洛维夫人》；纽约女编辑克拉丽莎，绰号即“达洛维夫人”，命运和小说中的达洛维夫人有着千丝万缕的联系；怀孕的中年主妇劳拉·布朗是《达洛维夫人》的读者，为生活的烦闷所包围。小说叙事手法别出心裁，思想内涵深刻，被好莱坞搬上银幕，经由妮可·基德曼、梅丽尔·斯特里普、茱丽安·摩尔激情演绎后立即凭借卓越的艺术表现，荣膺全美评委会大奖第60届金球奖最佳影片，第75届奥斯卡将9项提名。
而本书就是那本深具魔力的小说《Mrs.Dalloway》的中文翻译版！书名没有按常规译为“达洛维夫人”，而起名为《时时刻刻》！尽管出版社有借机炒作的嫌疑，我们也可以认为是对对维吉尼亚·伍尔芙的又一次致敬吧。
“《时时刻刻》证明了电影是一种艺术。” －美国有线电视新闻网CNN
“本年度最重要的电影，会是奥斯卡的大赢家。” －《早安美国》
“斯蒂芬·戴得利和戴维·黑尔的电影描述了三个不同时代的女人的一天。一日复一日，时时刻刻都进行的生命得到应有的赞颂。电影可以设定是在1921年，或者1951年，或者2001年，但这主题永远都生动而迫切。”
－《新闻周刊》
“美丽的演出，极度关注生活的导演，《时时刻刻》从开始到结束，都紧紧抓住你的心，让你的眼睛须臾不离银幕，这是一件艺术品。”
－拉里·金
我认为这部电影应该获得奥斯卡最佳影片
－梅丽尔·斯特里普
内容简介：
《时时刻刻》（又译《达洛维夫人》）是英国女作家维吉尼亚·伍尔芙的一部代表性小说。小说中以一天的活动为框架，展现了女主人公的一生事情、她的性格与命运、她的亲人和朋友、她与上流社会的丈夫达路维及平民情人皮特的三角关系等等——小说中有人际间的恩恩怨怨，有对青春少女的美好的描述、同性恋、自杀，有老年来临的种种恐慌，有对权贵的嘲讽和对社会名流的丑恶揭露，有对战争罪行的控诉，有对强国侵略弱国的抨击，有对下层民众艰难生活的同情，有对女权的呼吁；生与死、灵与肉、爱与恨、金钱与名誉、外在与内心、理智与情感、出世与媚俗……小说内容跌宕多姿，令人读得惊心动魄。
维吉尼亚·伍尔芙在世界文学中占有极其重要的地位。她是“作家中的作家”，维吉尼亚·伍尔芙与法国的普鲁斯特和爱尔兰的乔伊斯一起，共同开创了意识流文学流派，是意识流的代表作家之一。
维吉尼亚·伍尔芙天资卓绝，她忍受着精神疾病的折磨，极为勤奋地创作出了大量的作品。对于她的作品，历来有许多争论，但随着时间的推移，在今日西方对研究者越来越多、评价越来越高，比较公认的是，她的作品“变得越来越成为她的时代、她的精神世界和现代艺术思想的精髓”。

Virginia Woolf's intention to publish her short stories is carried out in this volume, posthumously collected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday, seven that appeared in magazines, and five other stories, the book makes available Virginia Woolf's shorter works of fiction. Foreword by Leonard Woolf.