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THE WAVES

1931; Virginia Woolf; First (American) Edition Stated, First Issue; New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co.; Dust Jacket; Jacket Design by Vanessa Bell; 297 Pages; w5.2"xh7.7"; Rare!!!

Great For any Fan of the Famous Classic or Collector.  Great Gift Idea!!!

ATTRIBUTES:

Original pretty dust jacket, $2.50 to inner flap still intact, over a blue cloth cover design with gold labeling to spine, and a Great Story from the Famed Author!!! 

SUMMARY:

The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered her most experimental work,^[1] and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice. The soliloquies that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset.

As the six characters or "voices" speak Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self and community. Each character is distinct, yet together they compose (as Ida Klitgård has put it) a gestalt about a silent central consciousness.

BACKGROUND:

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

CONDITION:

Condition is Good/Good+.  Some wear to edges of jacket, some loss at edges/ends of spine, rubbed jacket edges, few blemishes on jacket, slight age tone to pages, but are very good, few in the middle have a faint crease at side upper margin, hinges/text block are very good for over 85 years old!!!