Woolf is modern With Joyce and Eliot she has shaped a literary century Jeanette WintersonVirginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories developing a new language of sensation feeling and thought and recreating in words the swarm and confusion of life Defying categorization the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of Solid Objects through the fragile impressionism of Kew Gardens to the abstract exploration of consciousness in The Mark on the WallEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra Kemp