The Waves

✍ Scribed by Virginia Woolf

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 1931
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 194 KB
• Edition: Oxford World's Classics (2015)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0191646180

✦ Synopsis

{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook }
ebook, 256 pages
Published 1931
Oxford World's Classics (2015)
TheGreatestBooks.org Top 500 Ever |
Preface by: Frank Kermode (1992)
Introduction and Notes by: David Bradshaw
'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's greatest achievement. It follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age as they experience the world around them and explore who they are and what it means to be alive. As the contours of their lives are revealed, a unique novel is slowly unveiled. Enfolded within Woolf's lyrical and mysterious language, the mundane takes on a startling new significance while distant pasts are no less in play than the clamorous sounds and kaleidoscopic sights of the modern city. Yet precisely where the alluringly enigmatic pages of The Waves are leading, and what deeper meanings are held within its undulant chapters and shimmering interludes, are questions that have never ceased to enthral readers and critics alike. In this new edition David Bradshaw considers the spellbinding oddness and originality of The Waves, helping the reader to negotiate a way though this most poetic and haunting of novels.