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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9780156031578 Edition: Annotated ISBN: 0156031574 Label: Harvest Books Manufacturer: Harvest Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 348 Publication Date: July 03, 2006 Publisher: Harvest Books Studio: Harvest Books Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The Waves is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, standing with those few works of twentieth-century literature that have created unique forms of their own. In deeply poetic prose, Woolf traces the lives of six children from infancy to death who fleetingly unite around the unseen figure of a seventh child, Percival. Allusive and mysterious, The Waves yields new treasures upon each reading. Annotated and with an introduction by Molly Hite Download Description: A work of haunting power and beauty, Virginia Woolf¿s magnificent 1931 novel, The Waves, is perhaps the most challenging and experimental work of her career. Told through the voices of six characters as they move from childhood to old age, The Waves is not only a fascinating experiment in narrative monologue but also a profound and emotionally resonant story about time¿s passing and the desire for harmony in the midst of life¿s chaos. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A glorious bookIf I were allowed to recommend only one book to other readers for the rest of my life, it would be The Waves. This exquisite novel showcases Woolf at the height of her genius (it's often considered her masterpiece); in it, she's taken the English language in all its messy, adjective-laden glory and used it to its full potential, producing a uniquely structured book of grace, beauty, and powerful compassion. When I first picked up The Waves, I had no idea what I was in for - believing that To the ... Read More Rating:  - less expensive editionsThe one star rating refers not to Woolf's novel--which receives a five-star rating--but to this particular edition. There are less expensive editions of this novel. The "annotations" of this edition are not new--and the editor makes no secret that the annotations are available elsewhere. The "introduction" is interesting, but it also offers nothing particularly new for Woolf scholars and nothing particularly enlightening for non-academic readers that they could not easily find on any number of online ... Read More Rating:  - A toughie. Considered by many who should know (e.g., E. M. Forester)to be Woolf's most brilliant work of genius, The Waves is a challenging book to read for many reasons, not the least of which is the style she has adopted. More like an extended Greek chorus than anything else, the six characters, whose "voices" sound identical to one another, speak their life stories in short, alternating monologues. Although the writing is very poetic, it is also very dense and very distancing. We never really warm up to any of ... Read More Rating: - Pam "Book Club Sin Nombre"Our book club in Cancun read it for April. We can be a critical group, but this one received nothing but praise from those of us who actually FINISHED it. Through the night the message was "It's well worth it! Stick with it!" It is confusing at the beginning for those of us who've been reading best sellers awhile, and it was hard to learn to pace your reading. (Some advice: don't tackle it for less than 30 minutes at a time, and do some biographical research on Woolf before or while you read it). Read More Rating: - Shimmering but DifficultEnglish speakers everywhere should thank whatever higher power allowed for Virginia Woolf to write in their native tongue. They should, at the same time, thank her for gracing the world with books like "The Waves." Difficult? Of course, but so is existence, and no one, in any tradition, has been better at expressing the tumultuous inner space of being. This book, told as a series of interior monologues told by six characters, broken into chapters by brief descriptions of a beach at different times of day, ... Read More 
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