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  2. The Years (Woolf novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in scope, focusing instead on the small private details of the characters' lives. Except for the first, each ...

  3. Three Guineas - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. Virginia Woolf - Wikipedia

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    Woolf began writing professionally in 1900. During the inter-war period, Woolf was an important part of London's literary and artistic society, and its anti-war position. In 1915, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her half-brother's publishing house, Gerald Duckworth and Company.

  5. List of books with anti-war themes - Wikipedia

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    The Train Was on Time (Der Zug war pünktlich) – Heinrich Böll novel, 1949; Two Women – Alberto Moravia novel, 1958; Under Fire – Henri Barbusse novel, 1916 [13] The Unknown Soldier – Väinö Linna novel, 1954; Voyage to Faremido – Frigyes Karinthy novel, 1916 [14] "War" - Ludwig Renn novel, 1928. War Porn - Roy Scranton novel, 2016.

  6. ‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Review: Virginia Woolf’s ...

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    Inspired by and dedicated to Woolf’s lover, Vita Sackville-West, the classic 1928 novel has long been fodder for feminist and queer readings. The florid tale of a nobleman-cum-woman who fluidly …

  7. Leonard Woolf - Wikipedia

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    Leonard Woolf and his wife Virginia Woolf in 1912 Government Agent of Anuradhapura District Nissanka Wijeyeratne with Leonard Woolf at Abhayagiri vihāra in 1960. Woolf was born in London in 1880 the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and Marie (née de Jongh).

  8. Category:Novels set during the Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Novels set during the Thirty Years' War" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  9. Between the Acts - Wikipedia

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    Woolf fell into a depression [8] before her suicide on 28 March 1941, and the novel was published posthumously later that year. [9] At the time of her death Woolf had yet to correct the typescript of the novel, and a number of critics consider it to be unfinished. [10] The book has a note by Woolf's husband, Leonard Woolf: [6]