A stylistically innovative volume of short stories from the groundbreaking author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.
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First presented as one volume in 1921, Monday or Tuesday was the only collection of stories Virginia Woolf published in her lifetime. Written in her experimental, stream-of-consciousness style, these eight unconventional stories eschew traditional plot and character development in favor of interior thoughts, emotions, memories, and associations.
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From a heronโs in-flight perceptions in โMonday or Tuesdayโ to a ghost couple searching for treasure in โA Haunted House,โ from a meditation on color as a catalyst for imagination and emotional connections in โBlue and Greenโ to the invented stories of a narrator on a train observing a fellow passenger in โAn Unwritten Novel,โ Woolfโs poetic explorations take readers in directions previously unexamined, revealing an intensity of feeling and depth of insight that would continue to characterize her later work.
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Michael Cunningham, author of the Pulitzer Prizeโwinning novel The Hours, has said of Woolf: โShe was doing with language something like what Jimi Hendrix does with a guitar.โ Taken together, these lyrical and evocative stories create a rich mosaic of the artistโs radically unique sensibility.
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Monday or Tuesday includesโA Haunted House,โ โA Society,โ โMonday or Tuesday,โ
โAn Unwritten Novel,โ โThe String Quartet,โ โBlue and Green,โ โKew Gardens,โ and โThe Mark on the Wall.โ
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