The Captain's Death Bed & Other Essays

These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. «This book contains…the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading» (Katherine Anne Porter).

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, «A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.»