The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

THE youngest daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf has been acknowledged as a penetrating critic, praised for the fastidiousness of her prose style, and regarded (though not always with understanding) as an innovator in the art of fiction.Jacob’s Room and Mrs. Dalloway are the best known of her earlier novels. The Waves, a more experimental narrative, was published in 1931. Since then critics and readers have waited to learn the new direction of her work.