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The Waves is a 1931 novel by English novelist Virginia Woolf.It is critically regarded as her most experimental work, [1] consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis. [2]
A portrait of Woolf by Roger Fry c. 1917 Lytton Strachey and Woolf at Garsington, 1923 Virginia Woolf 1927 Woolf is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century novelists. [ 162 ] A modernist , she was one of the pioneers of using stream of consciousness as a narrative device , alongside contemporaries such as Marcel Proust , [ 163 ...
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is arguably one of her most popular novels, a history of English literature in satiric form.
The fiction portion became Woolf's most popular novel during her lifetime, The Years, which charts social change from 1880 to the time of publication through the lives of the Pargiter family. It was so popular, in fact, that pocket-sized editions of the novel were published for soldiers as leisure reading during World War II .
The Flight of the Mind: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 1 1888 - 1912 (1975) The Question of Things Happening: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 2 1913 - 1922 (1976) A Change of Perspective: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 3 1923 - 1928 (1977) A Reflection of the Other Person: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 4 1929 - 1931 (1978)
The Oxford World's Classics were classed as "the most famous works of the English Language" [3] and many volumes contained introductions by distinguished authors, such as T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, among others. [4] The books were marketed as a cheap and accessible series for the general public to read some of the greatest works of literature:
Virginia Woolf's defence of modernism, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924) was the initial publication in the series. Cover illustrations were by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell. Bell also designed book jackets for all of Woolf’s books that were published by Hogarth Press. [15] [14] The Letters are less well known, and are epistolary in form.
The Mark on the Wall is the first published story by Virginia Woolf. [1] It was published in 1917 as part of the first collection of short stories written by Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Woolf, called Two Stories. [2] It was later published in New York in 1921 as part of another collection entitled Monday or Tuesday.