The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
£8.99
by Woolf, Virginia | Fiction
Published 06/10/2016 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Vintage Classics Woolf Series series
Paperback | 240 pages
In stock
Description
Arguably Woolf’s most celebrated novel and a stunningly accomplished experiment in style and form, The Waves follows six individuals through the vicissitudes of life through the potent medium of soliloquy.
Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it’ Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves
The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival.
Weaving together soliloquies from the novel’s six characters, Woolf delicately and expertly explores universal concepts such as individuality, the self, and community. A novel still as poignant today as it was when written.
Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf’s response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died when he was twenty-six.
