Outwardly a novel about country-house life, set in a house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, this is an evocation of English experience in the months leading up to World War II. Through dialogue and humour, the author explores how a community is formed and scattered over time.
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Review of the series: 'The new collection [The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf] will prove itself indispensable to serious Woolfians.' The Times Literary Supplement
'This edition of what critics call Woolf's last novel will be the definitive one for years to come.' Pamela L. Caughie, Woolf Studies Annual
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Woolf's last novel and, in her own opinion, "more quintessential" than any of her others.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0140185712
- ISBN 13 9780140185713
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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