A review by bryanzhang
The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf: Second Edition by Virginia Woolf

3.0

This collection of fifty-some short works, many unpublished during Virginia Woolf's lifetime, is admittedly not very worthwhile in terms of literary merit. However, it is valuable for those who are interested in understanding Virginia Woolf as a complete person, with her own unique strengths and limitations, and a real evolution as a writer throughout her life. Beside that, these stories can probably best be thought of as experiments and exercises that helped Woolf to identify the style and ideas that she would go on to use (or not use) for her more well-regarded novels.