ウルフのテクストをめぐる困難な問題を収拾し、21世紀の研究のための決定版を企図したケンブリッジ版ウルフ作品集にて、ウルフの代表的傑作を遂に刊行。最新の研究成果が注ぎ込まれた編者による序文、注解、年譜に加えて、1928年のモダン・ライブラリー版へのウルフの序文を収録。This edition provides a substantial introduction, which discusses the composition history of the novel and shows how Woolf's reading, writing, and personal life as well as the world around her contributed to the book. Explanatory notes review decades of scholarship while identifying numerous allusions to Homer, Shakespeare, Tennyson and others. A complete list of textual variants shows differences among all English language editions of the novel published in Woolf's lifetime. The notes call attention to variants of particular interest, including Woolf's substantial addition, at proof stage, to the scene of Septimus' suicide. This edition also includes Woolf's seldom-reprinted 1928 introduction, along with a full chronology of composition, and a more general chronology of Woolf's life and works.