The Waves. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint

WOOLF, Virginia (ed) FLINT, Kate

ISBN 10: 0141198532 / ISBN 13: 9780141198538

Published by Penguin Classics, 2011

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Possibly inscribed by editor 'Kate'. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition thus. Inscribed. Size: xlvi,240pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Waves. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141198532
• ISBN 13: 9780141198538
• Binding: Binding sound, text unmarked
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & Fiction: General

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Synopsis

A brand new series of five of Woolf's major works, in beautifully designed hardback editions. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form the outer structure of the book, but the focus is the inner life of the characters which is conveyed in rich poetic language.

About the Author

Born in 1882, Virginia Woolf was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. She was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941). Woolf lived an energetic life, reviewing and writing and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself.