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The Waves

The Waves

The Waves Paperback / softback - 2000

by Virginia Woolf

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Paperback / softback. New. 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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  • Title The Waves
  • Author Virginia Woolf
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition International Ed
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classic, England
  • Publication date February 3, 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780141182711
  • ISBN 9780141182711 / 0141182717
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5 in (19.81 x 12.95 x 1.27 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 10

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This seller has earned a 4.21 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
4.21 / 5 (63 total reviews)

Readers depict The Waves as formally daring and emotionally exacting. Many praise its lyrical, stream-of-consciousness design and interleaved vignettes for distilling friendship, time, and grief—especially around Percival’s death. Some were moved to tears; others balked at the protracted, repetitive sentences and the disorienting opening focused on children. A few flagged dated racial attitudes. Overall, esteem for its craft outweighs frustration with its difficulty.

Readers say this book is:
lyricalchallengingintrospectivemovingexperimentalrepetitivemelancholicprofounddensebeautiful

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From the publisher

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics.

More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and 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.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers, which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay.

If you enjoyed The Waves, you might like Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, also available in Penguin Classics.

'A book of great beauty and a prose poem of genius'
Stephen Spender

'Full of sensuous touches ... the sounds of her words can be velvet on the page'
Maggie Gee, Daily Telegraph

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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