Cover of Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf Ebook Kew Gardens
Ebook · Urban Romantics

Kew Gardens

Author
Virginia Woolf
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
54 pages
ISBN
9781910660980
Published
15 April 2015
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Virginia Woolf
  • short stories
  • biography
  • urban
  • experimental
  • soliloquies
  • romantic
  • bloombsbury
  • modernism
  • modernist

Description

From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with spots of colour raised upon the surface; and from the red, blue or yellow gloom of the throat emerged a straight bar, rough with gold dust and slightly clubbed at the end. The petals were voluminous enough to be stirred by the summer breeze, and when they moved, the red, blue and yellow lights passed one over the other, staining an inch of the brown earth beneath with a spot of the most intricate colour.

Author

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) grew up at Hyde Park Gate, the daughter of Leslie Stephen, and with Leonard Woolf founded the Hogarth Press — a marriage that was also a publishing house. Mrs Dalloway holds a London day until it rings; To the Lighthouse holds a family, a house, and the years that empty both. Consciousness is the plot. The sentences follow attention the way light follows a wall.