The Waves
- ISBN-10
- 0241372089
- ISBN-13
- 9780241372081
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-04-04
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
Description
'Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched - love for instance - we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next' Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself. Perhaps more than any other of Woolf's novels, The Waves conveys the endless complexities of human experience. Edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint
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