The Waves
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Virginia Woolf's The Waves stands as one of the most daring and luminous achievements in twentieth-century fiction — a novel that abandons conventional narrative entirely in favour of nine lyrical soliloquies, tracing the inner lives of six friends from childhood to old age against the eternal rhythm of the sea. Through the voices of Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis, Woolf constructs a shimmering mosaic of consciousness, charting the birth of identity, the ache of solitude, and the relentless passage of time with devastating precision and beauty. Published in 1931, The Waves represents the apex of Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique and her most radical formal experiment — a prose-poem masquerading as a novel, in which the boundaries between self and world, speech and silence, dissolve like foam on the shore. Woolf's prose here achieves an almost musical intensity, each voice a distinct instrument in a carefully orchestrated symphony of being. Celebrated by critics as a cornerstone of modernist literature, the novel continues to captivate readers who dare to surrender to its tidal pull — leaving one to wonder whether any writer since has come so close to capturing the pure texture of human thought.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Virginia Woolf's The Waves stands as one of the most daring and luminous achievements in twentieth-century fiction — a novel that abandons conventional narrative entirely in favour of nine lyrical soliloquies, tracing the inner lives of six friends from childhood to old age against the eternal rhythm of the sea. Through the voices of Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis, Woolf constructs a shimmering mosaic of consciousness, charting the birth of identity, the ache of solitude, and the relentless passage of time with devastating precision and beauty. Published in 1931, The Waves represents the apex of Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique and her most radical formal experiment — a prose-poem masquerading as a novel, in which the boundaries between self and world, speech and silence, dissolve like foam on the shore. Woolf's prose here achieves an almost musical intensity, each voice a distinct instrument in a carefully orchestrated symphony of being. Celebrated by critics as a cornerstone of modernist literature, the novel continues to captivate readers who dare to surrender to its tidal pull — leaving one to wonder whether any writer since has come so close to capturing the pure texture of human thought.