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Title: The Years / Between the Acts
Condition: New
EAN: 9781840226812
ISBN: 9781840226812
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 09/04/2012
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 23mm
Item Weight: 278g
Author: Virginia Woolf
Contributor: Linden Peach (Introduction and notes by), Keith Carabine (Series edited by)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1840226811
Description: This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweaves comedy, satire and disturbing observation.

Rewriting the traditional family saga and the pageant, these unsettling novels provide extraordinary critiques of Englishness and English identity while pursuing compelling existentialist and psychological themes such as the nature of time, memory, personal relationships and sexual desire. Their tightly constructed narratives enable the reader to experience the fragmented lives of their characters and the difficulties that they have in communicating with each other and even understanding themselves. Read together, these novels illuminate each other in ways that will engage both the student and the general reader.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Book Series: Wordsworth Classics
Topic: Classic Fiction
Release Year: 2012

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