The Waves

Vintage Classics

By: Virginia Woolf

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Paperback | 2 December 2004 | Edition Number 1

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224 Pages

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1.4 x 13.3 x 20

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With introductions by Jeanette Winterson and Gillian Beer

Set on the English coast against the vivid backdrop of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. The characters are almost imperceptibly revealed through the kaleidoscopic accumulation of their reflections on themselves and each other.

Regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, The Waves was partially written in order to exorcise her private ghosts as the central, yet absent, character of Percival represents her brother Thoby, who died in 1906. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental and thrilling.

Industry Reviews

"Clear, bright, burnished, at once marvellously accurate and subtly connotative. The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry"
New York Times

"As a reader, as a writer, I constantly return, for the lyricism of it, the melancholy, the humanity"
Amy Sackville Independent

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