# The New Dress

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- Book: [The New Dress](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-woolf/the-new-dress) ([The New Dress.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-woolf/the-new-dress.md))
- Authors: [Virginia Woolf](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-woolf)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4174-696-7
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘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.