TheYears

Part of Alma Classics Virginia Woolf Collection to include 8 titles: Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, Jacob's Room, Monday or Tuesday, Orlando, The Waves, FlushA new edition of the most ambitious of Woolf's novels and the last to be published during her lifetime,Part of Alma Classics Virginia Woolf Collection to include 8 titles: Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, Jacob's Room, Monday or Tuesday, Orlando, The Waves, Flush,Contains notes and an extensive section on Virginia Woolf's life and worksThe most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a novelist, essayist and critic. Her writing established her as one of Modernism's leading exponents, as well as a pioneering feminist. Her most famous works include To the Lighthouse, Orlando and Mrs Dalloway.It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter siblings: twenty-year-old Eleanor, whose concern is to help the poor; her younger sisters Milly, Delia and Rose; her brothers Morris, Martin and Edward, who is at Oxford and in love with his cousin Kitty. As the years unfold, the various threads of relation, history and personal experience are woven into the tapestries of the characters' lives, forming a larger canvas that covers not only the story of a family, but that of two entire generations. The most ambitious of Woolf 's novels, and the last one to be published during her lifetime, The Years is a work suff used with a haunting, melancholy sense of time and history, and a stylistic tour de force.The most ambitious of Woolf's novels, and the last one to be published during her lifetime, The Years is here presented with notes and an extensive section on Virginia Woolf's life and works, including a photographic section