The Years: Virginia Woolf (Penguin classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241372070 ISBN 13: 9780241372074

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2019

Synopsis

'There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves'

The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century, as their Victorian upbringing gives way to a new world, where the rules of etiquette have shifted from the drawing room to the air-raid shelter. Virginia Woolf's penultimate novel is a celebration of the resilience of the individual amid time, change, life, death and renewall.

Edited with an introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson

About this title

Review:

'Inspired ... a brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change and performance, truth and illusion' (The Times Literary Supplement)

Her richest and most beautiful novel (The New York Times)

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: 0241372070
• ISBN 13: 9780241372074
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Johnson Jeri