‘In the Orchard’ is not one of Virginia Woolf’s best-known short stories, but it’s one of the most interesting because in a sense it’s three versions of the same (very short) story. You can read ‘In the Orchard’ here; below, we attempt a summary of the story’s ‘plot’. A girl […]
Of all Shakespeare’s plays, Timon of Athens is perhaps the most easy to summarise in terms of its plot; certainly it’s up there in the top five of his plays with the simplest plot which can be summarised in just a few sentences. So we’ll keep the following plot summary […]
‘The String Quartet’, which was published in Virginia Woolf’s short-story collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921, is one of her strongest evocations of music and its links to memory and imagination. You can read ‘The String Quartet’ here before proceeding to our summary of the story’s ‘plot’ below. The ‘plot’ […]