Between The Acts
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Set against the idyllic backdrop of a country estate on the eve of World War II, Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's final and perhaps most achingly beautiful novel, chronicling a single June day in which the villagers of Pointz Hall gather to watch an amateur pageant dramatising the whole of English history. At the centre of the narrative stands the enigmatic playwright Miss La Trobe, whose artistic vision struggles against the indifferent murmur of the crowd, while the fractured Olivers — Bart, his daughter-in-law Isa, and her husband Giles — orbit one another in a constellation of longing, resentment, and suppressed desire. Published posthumously in 1941 and presented here in a beautifully crafted 1974 Folio Society edition with lithographs by Gillian Barlow and an introduction by Quentin Bell, the novel stands as Woolf's consummate meditation on art, fragmentation, and the precarious continuity of civilisation. Her prose — lyrical, impressionistic, and shot through with irony — dissolves the boundary between performance and reality, past and present, self and other. Rich with echoes of Shakespeare and the English pastoral tradition, Between the Acts asks whether art can hold a fractured world together, a question that haunts every silence between the scenes.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, The Folio Society
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Set against the idyllic backdrop of a country estate on the eve of World War II, Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's final and perhaps most achingly beautiful novel, chronicling a single June day in which the villagers of Pointz Hall gather to watch an amateur pageant dramatising the whole of English history. At the centre of the narrative stands the enigmatic playwright Miss La Trobe, whose artistic vision struggles against the indifferent murmur of the crowd, while the fractured Olivers — Bart, his daughter-in-law Isa, and her husband Giles — orbit one another in a constellation of longing, resentment, and suppressed desire. Published posthumously in 1941 and presented here in a beautifully crafted 1974 Folio Society edition with lithographs by Gillian Barlow and an introduction by Quentin Bell, the novel stands as Woolf's consummate meditation on art, fragmentation, and the precarious continuity of civilisation. Her prose — lyrical, impressionistic, and shot through with irony — dissolves the boundary between performance and reality, past and present, self and other. Rich with echoes of Shakespeare and the English pastoral tradition, Between the Acts asks whether art can hold a fractured world together, a question that haunts every silence between the scenes.