The Waves

Name: The Waves
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780241372081
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By Virginia Woolf

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Summary

The Waves by Virginia Woolf unfolds through the soliloquies of six characters, each expressing their innermost thoughts and perceptions as they navigate life's stages. The novel explores themes of individuality and interconnectedness, presenting a poetic meditation on the passage of time and the essence of human experience. Woolf's unique narrative style captures the rhythmic ebb and flow of these lives, much like the waves referenced in the title.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate poetic and experimental writing that delves deeply into the consciousness of its characters. It offers a unique narrative style that beautifully intertwines the inner thoughts and emotions of six friends over the course of their lives, capturing the fluidity and complexity of human experience.

The Waves

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The Waves, Woolf's innovative modernist novel, is now available in a new Black Classics edition.

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.

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The Waves by Virginia Woolf is often praised for its poetic and innovative narrative style, blending soliloquies from its characters that depict the ebb and flow of their lives. Critics frequently commend Woolf's exploration of individuality and the passage of time, noting her masterful ability to capture inner thoughts and emotions. Some readers find the novel's structure challenging due to its unconventional format, yet they appreciate the depth and beauty of Woolf's prose.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241372081

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 April 2019

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: 15.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 215g

Pages: 288

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Virginia Woolf

About the Author

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.