It is a variable early summer's day,and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall,a country house in a remote village in the very heart of England. The local community is all astir,intent on putting the finishing touches to preparations for the annual pageant,which is to be performed there that evening. Among the medley of attendees are Mr Oliver,the owner of the house,the flirtatious Mrs Manresa and her friend William Dodge,who is rumoured to be homosexual,the troubled married couple Giles and Isa,as well as the eccentric spinster Miss La Trobe,the author of the pageant - an ambitious journey through England's past and literature. Highly symbolic,and dealing with many of the themes that were most dear to Virginia Woolf,such as the condition of the individual in the current of history,sexual ambiguity and the tension between life and art,Between the Acts was the author's final novel,offering a tantalising glimpse of the direction her fiction might have taken.
Publisher: Alma Books LtdISBN: 9781847498908Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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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