Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf
Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf
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Kew Gardens

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/10/2015

Synopsis

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the preeminent modernists of the 20th century.

"Kew Gardens" is a short story set in the London botanic garden of the same name on a hot July day. The narrative consists of brief evocative snapshots of four groups of people as they pass by a flowerbed.

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist, and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. In 1917, she and her husband founded the Hogarth Press, which published the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Katherine Mansfield, as well as the earliest translations of Sigmund Freud. Her major novels include Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves, The Years, and Between the Acts. She is also the author of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse on January 17, 2025

Evanescent moments of being ’Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees,... one's happiness, one's reality?’ Kew Gardens is the third short story by......more

Goodreads review by Sidrah on September 04, 2019

"Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees....one's happiness, one's reality?" Thoughts of animate and inanimate objects in the Kew Gardens during......more

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