Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel,and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential'than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall,the book weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of a war which is to change the pattern of history. Before the book was published in the spring of 1941,Virginia Woolf had taken her own life. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,including expert introductions by leading authorities,helpful notes to clarify the text,up-to-date bibliographies for further study,and much more.
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Publisher: Oxford University PressISBN: 9780199536573Weight: 180 gDimensions: 195 x 128 x 12 mm
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'Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between ￡3.99 and ￡4.99) 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.'Elisabeth Jay,Westminster College,Oxford,Review of English Studies,Vol. XLV,No. 178,May'94
Virginia Woolf
A titan of twentieth-century literature,a feminist icon and a figurehead of the modernist movement in Britain,Virginia Woolf remains one of the most daringly experimental writers in print. Her works include Mrs Dalloway,To the Lighthouse and Orlando and the pioneering non-fiction collection A Room of One's Own.
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