Arcturus The Virginia Woolf Collection 5 Books Set

The Arcturus The Virginia Woolf Collection brings together five works by Virginia Woolf, spanning novels and influential non-fiction. Across the set, Woolf explores inner life, memory and the shifting patterns of relationships, from childhood by the sea to the pressures and allegiances of family and society.

Included are The Waves, which follows six children as they grow up and face friendship, love and grief after the death of their friend Percival, and To the Lighthouse, set among the Ramsays and their guests on the Isle of Skye, where a postponed trip becomes the basis for an examination of family tensions. The volume also pairs A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, described as major twentieth-century contributions to feminist literature, alongside Mrs Dalloway, a portrait of a single day shaped by recollection, and Orlando, which moves from Queen Elizabeth’s court across three centuries to a transformed modern life.

Included titles

• The Waves
• To the Lighthouse
• A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
• Mrs Dalloway
• Orlando

Key details

• Five-book set
• Publisher: Arcturus
• Collection of works by Virginia Woolf
• Includes fiction and non-fiction
• Includes A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929

Synopses

The Waves

Beginning with six children playing in a garden by the sea, this novel follows their lives as they grow up. It traces friendship, love and grief after the death of their beloved friend, Percival. It is also described as Woolf’s response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died aged twenty-six.

To the Lighthouse

Mrs Ramsay, Mr Ramsay, their children and a group of guests holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf builds an examination of the tensions and allegiances within family life.

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

This volume combines two books described as among the greatest contributions to twentieth-century feminist literature. Together they form an attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is presented as a witty and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers.

Mrs Dalloway

Set over the course of one day, the novel follows Clarissa Dalloway as she focuses on the last-minute details of a party she will give that evening. As she prepares her house, she is overtaken by memories and re-examines the choices she has made throughout her life.

Orlando

Orlando begins as a passionate young nobleman immersed in the revelry and colour of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By the end, Orlando has transformed into a modern thirty-six-year-old woman, with three centuries having passed.