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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 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. [ 164 ] A modernist , she was one of the pioneers of using stream of consciousness as a narrative device , alongside contemporaries such as Marcel Proust , [ 165 ...
The award-winning author of 'This Strange Eventful History' on Virginia Woolf, 'The Little Prince,' and The Book That Kept Her Up Too Late. ... about the Second World War in Italy, it’s ...
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:
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.
In her essay, Woolf uses metaphors to explore social injustices and comments on women's lack of free expression. Her metaphor of a fish explains her most essential point, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". [2] She writes of a woman whose thought had "let its line down into the stream". [4]