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The Waves
Virginia Woolf
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Description for The Waves
Paperback. A title that begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JEANETTE WINTERSON AND GILLIAN BEER
The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died when he was twenty-six.
The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson, and the texts used are based ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099478270
SKU
9780099478270
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves. Jeanette Winterson CBE ... Read more
Reviews for The Waves
Clear, bright, burnished, at once marvellously accurate and subtly connotative. The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry
New York Times
As a reader, as a writer, I constantly return, for the lyricism of it, the melancholy, the humanity
Amy Sackville
Independent
New York Times
As a reader, as a writer, I constantly return, for the lyricism of it, the melancholy, the humanity
Amy Sackville
Independent