Pelican Archive

From Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault to Hannah Arendt and Virginia Woolf, the iconic Pelican imprint has published some of the most important thinkers of the past century since it was launched in 1937. Now the new Pelican Archive series brings together an eclectic range of thirty little books – on zen Buddhism, critical theory, agenda-setting politics, birdwatching and more – selected from the best of the imprint’s nine decades of publishing.

From Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault to Hannah Arendt and Virginia Woolf, the iconic Pelican imprint has published some of the most important thinkers of the past century since it was launched in 1937. Now the new Pelican Archive series brings together an eclectic range of thirty little books – on zen Buddhism, critical theory, agenda-setting politics, birdwatching and more – selected from the best of the imprint’s nine decades of publishing.

Who better to teach us how to be discerning readers and innovative writers than the master of modern fiction herself? This collection concentrates Virginia Woolf's radical thinking on how fiction works.

Less a how-to than a series of creative provocations to empower the reader to think for themselves, Modern Fiction is an essential, portable companion to our reading and writing lives.