Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), born into London literary society, was a prolific author of novels, criticism, diaries, and essays, including the influential feminist work A Room of One’s Own. In her masterpieces To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Waves, Woolf moved away from plot, developing a stream of consciousness that brought new psychological depth to literature. Although she suffered from bipolar disorder, which ultimately led to her suicide, Woolf was revered as the witty and entertaining center of the Bloomsbury Group.

Monday or Tuesday

A Story

by Virginia Woolf

Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains. A lake? Blot the shores of it out! A mountain? Oh, perfect—the sun gold on its slopes. Down that falls. Ferns then, or white feathers, for ever and ever——

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