| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction: The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf (Vintage classics) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
'Destined to be standard for years to come' Times Literary Supplement
Book Description
'Destined to be standard for years to come' Times Literary Supplement
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence
WHATEVER hour you woke there was a door shutting. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
WHATEVER hour you woke there was a door shutting. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have just read haunted house in this book
A haunted house is a story of couple who are now ghost.This ghostly couple move around their house searching for their hidden treasure.They remember the time they spend together in the house as they move and search the treasure.Finally at the end of the story they find the treasure in the house.
I think a haunted house is a beautiful story of love and death.Virginia Woolf cleverly keeps mentioning the word "here" and "it" and "treasure" and all you would keep guessing is what they mean.Woolf adds a ghost perspective to the story and comes out with the meaning of these words at the end of the story.
I was reading Woolf for the first time and i think the story is wanting me to read more of her.
Honestly, I read the story twice to get the essence of it.
A haunted house is a story of couple who are now ghost.This ghostly couple move around their house searching for their hidden treasure.They remember the time they spend together in the house as they move and search the treasure.Finally at the end of the story they find the treasure in the house.
I think a haunted house is a beautiful story of love and death.Virginia Woolf cleverly keeps mentioning the word "here" and "it" and "treasure" and all you would keep guessing is what they mean.Woolf adds a ghost perspective to the story and comes out with the meaning of these words at the end of the story.
I was reading Woolf for the first time and i think the story is wanting me to read more of her.
Honestly, I read the story twice to get the essence of it.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
2 reviews
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Uplifting!
17 July 2000
Format:Paperback
A friend tried to explain what Virginia Wolfe is all about ("She ties it all together in the end.") by letting me read the first short story in this book. What a lovely, lovely story it is! I cannot say more without giving it away, but I will only tell you that I re-read it several times to grab all of its nuances because she makes every word count. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Impressions and Instants
17 July 2011
Format:Paperback
Calling this collection "short stories" can be slightly misleading. I understand why a lot of people hate Woolf's writing, I really do get it. Reading Woolf reminds me of the first time I tasted beer and wine: I took a sip and then politely declined any further tastings for a while. After a while, I decided I was missing something, so I gave them both another try. After the 5th or maybe 500th sip, I realized I was beginning to enjoy the taste. Such as it was with Woolf. The first time I read her in college, I wanted to drop the class entirely and avoid that particular profession at all costs. Then, a couple of years ago I woke up one morning with this weird craving to read her again. I sat down with "To The Lighthouse" and literary fell in love. Since then, I have not been able to get enough.
Woolf's shorter pieces are more difficult to read than her longer pieces, in my humble opinion. As I mentioned before, coining her shorter work as "stories" is a bit misleading, especially if you are not familiar with her work. Don't get me wrong, there are some more traditional stories in this collection ("The Legacy" is one of my all time favorite short stories and worth the cover price alone); however, there are a lot of pieces that are more impressions and reflections on a single moment than what most people would consider an actual story. These impressionistic pieces are quite short (some less than two pages) but require more time to read than some of the longer ones. That might sound a bit like reading poetry and maybe it is. As your eyes read and reread the same lines, suddenly the bigger picture comes into clearer focus and you realize that Woolf has just transformed you into a flower gazing up out of your flowerbed at passerbyers in the park. Neat, huh? Okay, maybe it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you are looking for a little challenge and up for a bit of mental exercise, this collection is certainly worth a second glance.
Woolf's shorter pieces are more difficult to read than her longer pieces, in my humble opinion. As I mentioned before, coining her shorter work as "stories" is a bit misleading, especially if you are not familiar with her work. Don't get me wrong, there are some more traditional stories in this collection ("The Legacy" is one of my all time favorite short stories and worth the cover price alone); however, there are a lot of pieces that are more impressions and reflections on a single moment than what most people would consider an actual story. These impressionistic pieces are quite short (some less than two pages) but require more time to read than some of the longer ones. That might sound a bit like reading poetry and maybe it is. As your eyes read and reread the same lines, suddenly the bigger picture comes into clearer focus and you realize that Woolf has just transformed you into a flower gazing up out of your flowerbed at passerbyers in the park. Neat, huh? Okay, maybe it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you are looking for a little challenge and up for a bit of mental exercise, this collection is certainly worth a second glance.
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Fiction > Anthologies
- Books > Fiction > Classics
- Books > Fiction > Short Stories
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
