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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

Originally published
  
1985

Publisher
  
Hogarth Press

Cover artist
  
Vanessa Bell

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Publication date
  
January 1944

Pages
  
124 pp

Author
  
Virginia Woolf

Genre
  
Short story

Country
  
United Kingdom

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A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together.

  • The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921 :
  • "A Haunted House"
  • "Monday or Tuesday"
  • "An Unwritten Novel"
  • "The String Quartet"
  • "Kew Gardens"
  • "The Mark on the Wall"
  • The next six appeared in magazines between 1922 and 1941 :
  • "The New Dress"
  • "The Shooting Party"
  • "Lappin and Lappinova"
  • "Solid Objects"
  • "The Lady in the Looking-Glass"
  • "The Duchess and the Jeweller"
  • The final six were unpublished, although only "Moments of Being" and "The Searchlight" were finally revised by Virginia Woolf herself :
  • "'Moments of Being"
  • "The Man who Loved his Kind"
  • "The Searchlight"
  • "The Legacy"
  • "Together and Apart"
  • "A Summing Up"

    • References

    A Haunted House and Other Short Stories Wikipedia
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