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The Waves

By Virginia Woolf
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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The Waves by Virginia Woolf is a captivating exploration of the inner lives of six characters as they navigate the complexities of time, identity, and human connection. Through their soliloquies, Woolf delves into their evolving relationships and individual consciousness, offering a poetic and profound meditation on the ebb and flow of existence. This novel challenges traditional narrative structures, creating a tapestry of thoughts and emotions that resonate deeply with readers.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring the inner lives and consciousness of characters, as it intricately weaves together the voices of six individuals reflecting on their intertwined experiences from childhood to adulthood. If you appreciate rich, poetic language and innovative narrative structure, you'll find this novel to be a compelling and immersive journey.

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The Waves

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this book follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. It presents rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, and their awareness of unity and isolation.

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The Waves is Woolf's innovative modernist novel.

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements, and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters—their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation.

Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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The Waves by Virginia Woolf has been praised for its innovative narrative structure and poetic language. Reviewers appreciate the lyrical exploration of consciousness through the intertwined lives of its characters. The novel is often noted for its introspective depth and evocative depiction of human experiences, drawing admiration for its artistic and intellectual ambition.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141182711

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 February 2000

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Edited by Kate Flint
  • Introduction by Kate Flint
  • Notes by Kate Flint

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 168g

Pages: 224

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics Virginia Woolf

About the Author

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist, essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Her family and friends were writers and artists and they later became known as the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf suffered mental health problems throughout her life and, fearing another outbreak of mental illness, drowned herself in 1941.

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