The Waves - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199536627 ISBN 13: 9780199536627

Publisher: Oxford University Press Espaņa, S.A., 2008

Synopsis

Woolf described this work on the title-page of the first draft as `the life of anybody'. The Waves (1931) traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an exploratory and sensuous narrative. The Waves was conceived, brooded on, and written during a highly political phase in Woolf's career, when she was speaking on issues of gender and of class. This was also the period when her love affair with Vita Sackville-West was at its most intense. The work is often described as if it were the product of a secluded, disembodied sensibility. Yet its writing is supremely engaged and engaging, providing an experience which the reader is unlikely to forget.

About this title

About the Author

Gillian Beer is a Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Espaņa, S.A.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199536627
• ISBN 13: 9780199536627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304