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The Years

By Virginia Woolf
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The Years by Virginia Woolf is a sweeping narrative following the lives of the Pargiter family across several generations, spanning from the 1880s to the 1930s. The novel intricately weaves together personal and societal changes, focusing on how time, memory, and family dynamics shape individual experiences. Through vivid depictions of everyday moments, Woolf explores the passage of time and the continuity of life amidst shifting cultural landscapes.
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You might enjoy this book if you're captivated by stories that weave together the fabric of a family's life throughout decades, showcasing their struggles and triumphs. This novel may appeal to you if you appreciate Virginia Woolf's lyrical prose and her keen insight into the shifting dynamics of social change and personal relationships. If you enjoy character-driven narratives with rich historical context, this book could be a perfect choice for you.

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The Years

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A savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, from the author of Mrs. Dalloway.

The Years is the story of three generations of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century.

A work of fluid and dazzling lucidity, The Years eschews a simple line of development in favour of a varied and constantly changing style, emphasising the radical discontinuity of personal experiences and historical events.

Virginia Woolf's penultimate novel celebrates the resilience of the individual self and, in her dazzlingly fluid and distinctive voice, she confidently paints a broad canvas across time, generation and class.

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The Years is praised for its complex exploration of time and human experience, blending themes like age, change, and truth with Woolf's distinctive narrative style. Critics like The Times Literary Supplement commend it as an ingenious reflection on the passage of time, while The New York Times regards it as Woolf's most opulent and exquisite work.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241372074

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 April 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Jeri Johnson
  • Edited by Jeri Johnson
  • Notes by Jeri Johnson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 328g

Pages: 448

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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.

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