Night and Day

✍ Scribed by Woolf, Virginia

• Book ID: 110460894
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Year: 1919
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 326 KB
• Series: Barnes & Noble Classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781411432789

✦ Synopsis

Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a
social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions
that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and the individual
may not necessarily coincide. At its centre is Katharine Hilbery, the
beautiful grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet. She must choose
between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney and
her attraction to Ralph Denham, with whom she feels a more profound and
disturbing affinity. Katharine's hesitation is vividly contrasted with
the approach of her friend Mary Datchet, dedicated to the Women's Rights
movement. The ensuing complications are underlined and to some extent
unravelled by Katharine's mother, Mrs Hilbery, whose struggles to weave
together the known documents, events and memories of her father's life
into a coherent biography reflect Woolf's own sense of the unique and
elusive nature of experience.