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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100156949601

ISBN-139780156949606

eBay Product ID (ePID)58170

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Book TitleWaves : the Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Classics, Literary

Publication Year1950

GenreFiction

AuthorVirginia Woolf, Mark Hussey

Book SeriesThe Virginia Woolf Library

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN77-092142

Reviews"Clear, bright, burnished, at once marvelously accurate and subtly connotative. The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry."--The New York Times, 'Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between L3.99 and L4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf's best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World's Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.' Review of English Studies, Vol. XLV, No. 178, May '94, "Clear, bright, burnished, at once marvelously accurate and subtly connotative. The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry."-- The New York Times, "Clear, bright, burnished, at once marvelously accurate and subtly connotative. The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry."--The New York Times --

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Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal823/.912

SynopsisAn innovative work of modernist fiction ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's The Waves traces the lives of a group of friends against the backdrop of the sea. Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters--three men and three women--who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing their, inner lives: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation., "I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me." Innovative and deeply poetic, The Waves is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. It begins with six children--three boys and three girls--playing in a garden by the sea, and follows their lives as they grow up, experience friendship and love, and grapple with the death of their beloved friend Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing their inner lives: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation., One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.