Introduction & Notes by Deborah Parsons University of Birmingham 'I am writing to a rhythm & not to a plot' Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel The Waves Widely regarded as one of her greatest & most original works it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature & the passage of time Six children
- Bernard Susan Rhoda Neville Jinny & Louis
- meet in a garden close to the sea their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back & forth from the shore The subsequent continuity of these six main characters as they develop from childhood to maturity & follow different passions & ambitions is interspersed with interludes from the timeless & unifying chorus of nature In pure stream-of-consciousness style Woolf presents a cross-section of multiple yet parallel lives each marked by the disintegrating force of a mutual tragedy The Waves is her searching exploration of individual & collective identity & the observations & emotions of life from the simplicity & surging optimism of youth to the vacancy & despair of middle-age

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The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful & poetic novel It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea & follows their lives as they grow up & experience friendship love & grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival Regarded by many as her greatest work The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby who died when he was twenty-six ...

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels The Waves conveys the full complexity & richness of human experience Tracing the lives of a group of friends The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth & middle age While social events individual achievements & disappointments form its narrative the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters their aspirations their triumphs & regrets their awareness of unity & isolation Separately & together they query the relationship of past to present & the meaning of life itself Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed The Waves you might like Woolf's Mrs Dalloway also available in Penguin Classics'A book of great beauty & a prose poem of genius' Stephen Spender' Full of sensuous touches the sounds of her words can be velvet on the page' Maggie Gee Daily Telegraph ...

'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 & 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 & explore who they are & 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 & mysterious language the mundane takes on a startling new significance while distant pasts are no less in play than the clamorous sounds & kaleidoscopic sights of the modern city Yet precisely where the alluringly enigmatic pages of The Waves are leading & what deeper meanings are held within its undulant chapters & shimmering interludes are questions that have never ceased to enthral readers & critics alike In this new edition David Bradshaw considers the spellbinding oddness & originality of The Waves helping the reader to negotiate a way though this most poetic & haunting of novels ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

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