The Waves
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the edge of consciousness, where thought dissolves into sensation and the self fractures into voices, Virginia Woolf's The Waves stands as one of the most audacious achievements in twentieth-century literature. First published in 1931, the novel chronicles the interwoven lives of six friends — Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis — from childhood to old age, not through conventional narrative but through a series of interior monologues that pulse and recede like the tide itself, punctuated by lyrical interludes describing the sea and the arc of a single day's light. Woolf dismantles the architecture of the traditional novel entirely, constructing instead a meditation on time, identity, solitude, and the terrifying beauty of human consciousness. Each voice is distinct yet harmonically bound to the others, and the absent presence of a seventh figure, Percival, casts a long shadow of grief and longing over every page. Widely regarded as Woolf's masterpiece and the apex of High Modernist prose, The Waves rewards patient readers with an experience less like reading a story and more like inhabiting one — leaving the question of where the self ends and the world begins profoundly, beautifully unanswered.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the edge of consciousness, where thought dissolves into sensation and the self fractures into voices, Virginia Woolf's The Waves stands as one of the most audacious achievements in twentieth-century literature. First published in 1931, the novel chronicles the interwoven lives of six friends — Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis — from childhood to old age, not through conventional narrative but through a series of interior monologues that pulse and recede like the tide itself, punctuated by lyrical interludes describing the sea and the arc of a single day's light. Woolf dismantles the architecture of the traditional novel entirely, constructing instead a meditation on time, identity, solitude, and the terrifying beauty of human consciousness. Each voice is distinct yet harmonically bound to the others, and the absent presence of a seventh figure, Percival, casts a long shadow of grief and longing over every page. Widely regarded as Woolf's masterpiece and the apex of High Modernist prose, The Waves rewards patient readers with an experience less like reading a story and more like inhabiting one — leaving the question of where the self ends and the world begins profoundly, beautifully unanswered.