The Waves: Virginia Woolf: xviii (Vintage classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099478277 ISBN 13: 9780099478270

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2008

Synopsis

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 on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

About this title

Review:

"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)

Book Description:

'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099478277
• ISBN 13: 9780099478270
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224