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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9781840225587 ISBN: 1840225580 Label: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Number Of Pages: 1024 Publication Date: September 01, 2007 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Studio: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Orlando, 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', said Woolf of The Waves. Regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Highly Recommend: Excellent Value for the BuyerThis is a great way to read Virginia Woolf. My only complaints are that it is heavy to lift and hold and it has no analysis. However, at the low price you get most of her major novels plus two non-fiction essays in one fat book. So overall it is excellent value for the price. I read the Voyage Out before buying the present book. That is Woolf's first novel. Then I read this collection. I skipped her second novel - which is considered to be a flop - and which is not here in the collected ... Read More 
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