Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

English Novelist, Critic, Essayist, Feminist, Socialist

Virginia Woolf was a founder of the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. Her famous books include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

She is best known for developing the ’stream of consciousness’ method of writing in which the reader follows the characters’ internal thoughts as the story unfolds. Her writing style is significantly influential in the development of the 20th century novel.

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Works by Virginia Woolf

• The Voyage Out, 1915
• Night and Day, 1919
• Jacob’s Room, 1922
• Mrs. Dalloway, 1925
• To the Lighthouse, 1927
• Orlando, 1928
• A Room of One’s Own, 1919
• The Waves, 1931
• The Years, 1937
• Between the Acts, 1941

Henry James

Henry James (1843-1916)

American-born English Author, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright, Critic

Henry James was a American-born English classic author of novels, short-stories, plays and literary criticisms. Some of his greatest novels include: The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl. Famous stories he wrote: Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians. Among the authors he considered his great influence include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant and Ivan Turgenev.

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Major Works by Henry James:

Books by Henry James:

• Watch and Ward, 1871
• Roderick Hudson, 1875
• The American, 1877
• The Europeans, 1878
• Daisy Miller, 1879
• Washington Square, 1880
• The Portrait of a Lady, 1881
• The Bostonians, 1886
• The Princess Casamassima, 1886
• The Tragic Muse, 1890
• The Sacred Fount, 1901
• The Wings of the Dove, 1902
• The Ambassadors, 1903
• The Golden Bowl, 1904

The Spoils of Poynton, 1897 – Short novel

Andrey Bely

Today, October 26 (1880), is the birthday of Russian poet, author and critic, Andrey Bely, a leading figure in russian symbolist movement during the twentieth century.