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A review by moseslh
The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf, Susan Dick
4.0
I must confess that I did not find this book particularly powerful or gripping. Indeed, it took me a full four months to finish it because I kept getting distracted by other books that were better able to hold my attention. But in Woolf's defense, she never intended for all her short stories to be compiled and read together in one volume like this, and while the collection seemed to drag on, most individual stories within it were stellar.
Woolf's writing in her short stories, as in her novels, is utterly spectacular. The beauty of her prose brought this book up to a four star rating for me despite what I wrote in the above paragraph. While I certainly prefer her novels, I would still recommend this book to Woolf fans or anyone interested in reading her work for the first time who does not want to commit to a whole novel right away.
Woolf's writing in her short stories, as in her novels, is utterly spectacular. The beauty of her prose brought this book up to a four star rating for me despite what I wrote in the above paragraph. While I certainly prefer her novels, I would still recommend this book to Woolf fans or anyone interested in reading her work for the first time who does not want to commit to a whole novel right away.