Discover the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime - a powerful portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century. The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters,a large middle-class London family,from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break,loss,radical change and stifling conformity,marriage and regret. Written in 1937,this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime,and is a powerful indictment of'Victorianism'and its values. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784872236Number of pages: 416Weight: 880 gDimensions: 172 x 128 x 34 mm
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Inspired throughout - a brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems,age and youth,change and permanence,truth and illusionLovely through The Waves was,The Years goes far beyond and beyond it-expressing Woolf's purpose in the novel more richly than it has ever been done before
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.
Visit the Virginia Woolf author pageSusan Hill
Susan Hill,CBE is an English author of fiction and non-fiction. Her novels includeThe Woman in Black,The Mist in the Mirror,andI'm the King of the Castle.
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