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The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Through a series of connected monologues,The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal his ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction
Set on the English coast against the vivid backdrop of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. The characters are almost imperceptibly revealed through the kaleidoscopic accumulation of their reflections on themselves and each other. R ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Woolf described this work on the title-page of the first draft as 'the life of anybody'. The Waves (1931) traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an exploratory and sensuous narrative. The Waves was conceived, brooded on, and written during a highly political phase in Woolf's career, when ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Ser.
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 s ...Show more
The Years (Penguin Classics) by Virginia Woolf; Jeri Johnson (Introduction by, Notes by, Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILLThe Yearsfollows 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 re ...Show more
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bri ...Show more
To The Lighthouse: (Vintage Voyages) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindMr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until o ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Virgina Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
In the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. The section begins with Mrs Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next day. This prediction is denied by Mr Ramsay, who voices his certainty that the weather will not be clear, an opinion th ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Virgina Woolf
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Category: Classics
The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the comple ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf; David Bradshaw (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMAN The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf construct ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, "To the Lighthouse "is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universa ...Show more