Virginia Woolf as a short-story writer

Abstract

M. Abrahamowicz has chosen as subject for examination five of Virginia Woolf's short stories out of the collection A Haunted House and Other Short Stories \ Perhaps it is not very fair on the writer to select, for a separate subject, just this part of her work which is avowedly not her best. The small volume of her short stories was published posthumously by her husband, Leonard Woolf, in 1943: in his Foreword to it, he calls the reader's attention to the unfinished state in which most of them were left at the writer's death (...)