The New Dress
  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241746967
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99

The New Dress

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

‘Waking, I cry \"Oh, is this your – buried treasure? The light in the heart.\"’

In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prompts a questioning of reality itself; a pale-yellow silk dress provokes a painful self-reckoning. Beautiful, strange and pioneering, each piece is a small precious stone to be held to the light and savoured.
  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241746967
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99
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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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