WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JEANETTE WINTERSON AND GILLIAN BEERThe Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship,love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work,The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby,who died when he was twenty-six.The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson,and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099478270Number of pages: 224Weight: 159 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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Clear,bright,burnished,at once marvellously accurate and subtly connotative. The pure,delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetryAs a reader,as a writer,I constantly return,for the lyricism of it,the melancholy,the humanity
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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Jeanette Winterson OBE is a British writer,broadcaster and activist.
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