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Monday or Tuesday
MondayOrTuesday.jpg
First edition (UK)
Author Virginia Woolf
Illustrator Vanessa Bell
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Hogarth Press (UK)
Harcourt Brace (US)
Publication date
1921
Media typePrint
Pages91 [1]

Monday or Tuesday is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. [1] Leonard Woolf called it one of the worst printed books ever published because of the typographical mistakes in it. [2] Most mistakes were corrected for the US edition published by Harcourt Brace. [3] It contained eight stories:

Contents

Six of the stories were later published by Leonard Woolf in the posthumous collection A Haunted House , those excluded were "A Society" and "Blue & Green". [3]

Title

In her 1919 work "Modern Fiction", Virginia Woolf explains her new approach to writing:

Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day and she is popular. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday

This last phrase "the life of Monday or Tuesday" is what Woolf believed to be at the core of fiction; and from it came the title of this, her first short story collection, [4] and the only selection she published herself.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Monday Or Tuesday. With Woodcuts By Vanessa Bell". Antiqbook. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012.
  2. Bulut, A. (March 1997). "Virginia Woolf and Her Work: Proceedings of the Fifth METU British Novelists Seminar 13–14": 41–51.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. 1 2 Note on the Text, page xi of Monday and Tuesday publ. Hesperus Press, 2003
  4. Rodríguez, L. (2001). "Parody and metafiction: Virginia Woolf's 'An Unwritten Novel'". Links & Letters. 8: 71–81.