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Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf

Eight early short stories are highly representative of Woolf's
stream-of-consciousness style.

NEW YORK: HARCOURT, BRACE & CO., 1921
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999

CONTENTS

1.A Haunted House
2.A Society
3.Monday or Tuesday
4.An Unwritten Novel
5.The String Quartet
6.Blue & Green
7.Kew Gardens
8.The Mark on the Wall







1. A Haunted House


WHATEVER hour you woke there was a door shunting. From room to room they
went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sureЧa ghostly
couple.
"Here we left it," she said. And he added, "Oh, but here too!" "It's
upstairs," she murmured.
"And in the garden," he whispered "Quietly," they said, "or we shall wake
them."
But it wasn't that you woke us. Oh, no. "They're looking for it; they're
drawing the curtain, one might say, and so read on a page or two. "Now
they've found it," one would be certain, stopping the pencil on the
margin. And then, tired of reading, one might rise and see for oneself,
the house all empty, the doors standing open, only the wood pigeons
bubbling with content and the hum of the threshing machine sounding from
the farm. "What did I come in here for? What did I want to find?" My hands
were empty. "Perhaps it's upstairs then?" The apples were in the
loft. And so down again, the garden still as ever, only the book had
slipped into the grass. But they had found it in the drawing room. Not
that one could ever see them. The window panes reflected apples, reflected
roses; all the leaves were green in the glass. If they moved in
the drawing room, the apple only turned its yellow side. Yet, the moment
after, if the door was opened, spread about the floor, hung upon the
walls, pendant from the ceilingЧwhat? My hands were empty. The shadow of a