The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (Four-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Mrs. Dalloway; The Waves; The Years - very good with name penned on fep, otherwise internally sound.
"Mrs. Dalloway" (2015) maps a single June day in postwar London through the intertwining interior lives of Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, constructing a modernist meditation on time, memory, and the violence concealed beneath social surfaces. "The Waves" (2011) advances the modernist novel to its furthest extreme, tracing six characters from childhood to old age entirely through lyrical interior monologues that subordinate plot to the rhythms of consciousness and the inevitability of death. "The Years" (2012) follows the Pargiter family across five decades of English life from the 1880s to the 1930s, charting through this social novel the slow erosion of Victorian certainties and the constrained lives of women across generations. "Between the Acts" (2010) gathers an English village community for an outdoor pageant staging British history on the eve of the Second World War, using this final novel to pit the fragile continuities of culture and civilization against the gathering forces of destruction.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Mrs. Dalloway; The Waves; The Years - very good with name penned on fep, otherwise internally sound.
"Mrs. Dalloway" (2015) maps a single June day in postwar London through the intertwining interior lives of Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, constructing a modernist meditation on time, memory, and the violence concealed beneath social surfaces. "The Waves" (2011) advances the modernist novel to its furthest extreme, tracing six characters from childhood to old age entirely through lyrical interior monologues that subordinate plot to the rhythms of consciousness and the inevitability of death. "The Years" (2012) follows the Pargiter family across five decades of English life from the 1880s to the 1930s, charting through this social novel the slow erosion of Victorian certainties and the constrained lives of women across generations. "Between the Acts" (2010) gathers an English village community for an outdoor pageant staging British history on the eve of the Second World War, using this final novel to pit the fragile continuities of culture and civilization against the gathering forces of destruction.