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The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784870843

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 176g

  • RRP: £7.99

The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784870843

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 176g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • 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, Independent

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About the Author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

Virginia Woolf

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