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The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Virginia Woolf
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Description for The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Paperback. A poetic novel that 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. Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 177 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
The 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 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Vintage Classics Woolf Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784870843
SKU
V9781784870843
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99-98
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her father's death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of `The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a ... Read more
Reviews for The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
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 poetry
New York Times
As a reader, as a writer, I constantly return, for the lyricism of it, the melancholy, the humanity
Amy Sackville
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New York Times
As a reader, as a writer, I constantly return, for the lyricism of it, the melancholy, the humanity
Amy Sackville
... Read more