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The Years

byVirginia Woolf, Susan Hill (Introducer)

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WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SUSAN HILL AND STEVEN CONNOR

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.

Inspired throughout - a brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion

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About 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.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9780099982807
  • Length: 416 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 26mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 288g
  • Price: £9.99
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