The Waves

Authors: Woolf, Virginia
Publisher: HarperPerennial Classics
BISAC/Subject: FIC004000
ISBN: 9781443433808, Related ISBNs: 1443433802, 9781443433808
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

Set against the backdrop of a seaside dreamscape, Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel, The Waves, follows the lives of six children—Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis—from birth to death as they fleetingly unite around the elusive figure of a seventh child, Percival.

Largely abandoning traditional plot structure, The Waves recounts the thoughts, feelings and perceptions of all six characters in a series of interwoven soliloquies that simultaneously span the course of their lives and the course of a single day. Many of the characters depicted in Woolf’s The Waves are said to be inspired by the conversations and correspondences she shared with her peers; friends and writing rivals such as T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey.

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