Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of 'Solid Objects' through the fragile impressionism of 'Kew Gardens' to the abstract exploration of consciousness in 'The Mark on the Wall'.

Contents:

• Bibliographical Note
• Introduction by Sandra Kemp
• Further Reading
• A Note on the Text
• A Haunted House
• A Society
• Monday or Tuesday
• An Unwritten Novel
• The String Quartet
• Blue and Green
• Kew Gardens
• The Mark on the Wall
• Solid Objects
• In the Orchard
• A Woman's College from Outside
• The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection
• The Shooting Party
• The Duchess and the Jeweller
• Lapin and Lapinova
• Notes