Between the Acts: Virginia Woolf (Penguin classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 024137250X ISBN 13: 9780241372500

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2019

Synopsis

'The future shadowed their present, like the sun coming through the many-veined transparent vine leaf: a criss-cross of lines making no pattern'

It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare for the annual village pageant that will be held in its grounds that day. It will tell the stories of English history, as it does every year. Yet the coming of war broods over the whole community, changing the meaning of past and present, and heralding a new act. Through her characters' passionate musings and private dramas, and through the enigmatic figure of the pageant's author, Miss La Trobe, Virginia Woolf's playful final novel both celebrates and mocks Englishness, and re-creates the elusive role of the artist.

Edited by Stella McNichol
With an introduction and notes by Gillian Beer

About this title

About the Author:

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 024137250X
• ISBN 13: 9780241372500
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: McNichol Stella, Beer Gillian