Megapack
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The Lon Williams Weird Western Megapack
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***Out of print.
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To the Stars—And Beyond! The Second Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
Once Upon a Future: The Third Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
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A VIRGINIA WOOLF BIBLIOGRAPHY
Novels
The Voyage Out (1915)
Night and Day (1919)
Jacob’s Room (1922)
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Orlando: A Biography (1928)
The Waves (1931)
The Years (1937)
Between the Acts (1941)
Short fiction
“Phyllis and Rosamond”
“The Mysterious Case of Miss V.”
“The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn”
“A Dialogue upon Mount Pentelicus”
“Memoirs of a Novelist”
“The Mark on the Wall” (1917)
“Kew Gardens” (1919)
“The Evening Party”
“Solid Objects” (1920)
“Sympathy” (1921)
“An Unwritten Novel” (1920)
“A Haunted House” (1921)
“A Society” (1921)
“Monday or Tuesday” (1921)
“The String Quartet” (1921)
“Blue & Green” (1921)
“A Woman’s College from Outside” (1926)
“In the Orchard” (1923)
“Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” (1923)
“Nurse Lugton’s Curtain”
“The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story” (1985)
“The New Dress” (1927)
“Happiness”
“Ancestors”
“The Introduction”
“Together and Apart”
“The Man who Loved his Kind”
“A Simple Melody”
“A Summing Up”
“Moments of Being: ‘Slater’s Pins have no Points’” (1928)
“The Lady in the Looking-Glass” (1929)
“The Fascination of the Pool”
“Three Pictures”
“Scenes from the Life of a British Naval Officer”
“Miss Pryme”
“Ode Written Partly in Prose”
“Portraits”
“Uncle Vanya”
“The Duchess and the Jeweller” (1938)
“The Shooting Party” (1938)
“Lappin and Lappinova” (1939)
“The Searchlight”
“Gypsy, the Mongrel”
“The Legacy”
“The Symbol”
“The Watering Place”
Non-Fiction
A Room of One’s Own (1929)
On Being Ill (1930)
Three Guineas (1938)
THE VOYAGE OUT [Part 1]
Originally published in 1915
CHAPTER I
As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers’ clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you. In the streets of London where beauty goes unregarded, eccentricity must pay the penalty, and it is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand.
One afternoon in the beginning of October when the traffic was becoming brisk a tall man strode along the edge of the pavement with a lady on his arm. Angry glances struck upon their backs. The small, agitated figures—for in comparison with this couple most people looked small—decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with despatch-boxes, had appointments to keep, and drew a weekly salary, so that there was some reason for the unfriendly stare which was bestowed upon Mr. Ambrose’s height and upon Mrs. Ambrose’s cloak. But some enchantment had put both man and woman beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed stonily straight in front of her at a level above the eyes of most that it was sorrow. It was only by scorning all she met that she kept
