Woolf described this work on the title-page of the first draft as the life of anybody. The Waves (1931) traces the lives & interactions of seven friends in an exploratory & sensuous narrative. The Waves was conceived brooded on & written during a highly political phase in Woolfs career when she was speaking on issues of gender & of class. This was also the period when her love affair with Vita Sackville-West was at its most intense. The work is often described as if it were the product of a secluded disembodied sensibility. Yet its writing is supremely engaged & engaging providing an experience which the reader is unlikely to forget. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords 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. ...

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")." ...

The rebellion has been a success; it has brought changes
- changes that not everyone welcomes! Captured by an old & vicious enemy
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One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting & started watching the waves rolling into shore. Mesmerised he wondered where they had come from & decided to find out. He soon realised that waves dont just appear on the ocean they are everywhere around us & our lives depend on them. From the rippling beats of our hearts to the movement of food through our digestive tracts & of signals across our brains waves are the transport systems of our bodies. Everything we see & hear reaches us via light & sound waves & our information age is reliant on the microwaves & infrared waves used by the telephone & internet infrastructure. From shockwaves unleashed by explosions to torsional waves that cause suspension bridges to collapse from sonar waves that allow submarines to see with sound to Mexican waves that sweep through stadium crowds...there were waves it seemed wherever Gavin looked. But what he wondered could they all have in common with ones we splash around in on holiday? By the time he made the ultimate surfers pilgrimage to Hawaii Gavin had become a world-class wavewatcher although he was still rubbish at surfing. & while this fascinating funny book may not teach you how to ride the waves it will show you how to tune into the shapes colours & forms of lifes many undulations. ...

READ BY PAUL MCGANN. Shining star Oliver Jeffers is back with this star spangled inter-galactic adventure tale in space! One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds stars & planets until suddenly he runs out of petrol! Miles from earth the boy crashes into the moon & waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a friendly martian appears from the darkness also with a broken aircraft. Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox. Can the boy find his way back home safely & will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend? ...

Shining star Oliver Jeffers is back with this star spangled inter-galactic adventure tale in space! One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds stars & planets until suddenly he runs out of petrol! Miles from earth the boy crashes into the moon & waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a friendly martian appears from the darkness also with a broken aircraft. Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox. Can the boy find his way back home safely & will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend? ...

READ BY PAUL MCGANN. An exciting intergalactic adventure from shining star Oliver Jeffers creator of Lost & Found. One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds stars & planets until suddenly he runs out of petrol! Miles from earth the boy crashes into the moon & waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a friendly martian appears from the darkness also with a broken aircraft. Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox. Can the boy find his way back home safely & will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend? ...

Fly to the moon & back in this star-spangled adventure & contact your own alien with an intergalactic walkie-talkie! One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. He whizzes past clouds & stars until suddenly phut phut phut the plane runs out of petrol... Miles from earth the boy crash lands on the moon. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a Martian appears from the darkness
- could this be the start of an unlikely friendship? & will the boy ever manage to get home again? Make extraterrestrial contact with an intergalactic walkie-talkie & a special miniature hardback edition of The Way Back Home.
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The alliance has failed. There is a dark full moon on mid-winters day
- sign that the foretelling has come to pass. Karan is held
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Its night & the dark is filled with strange sounds as Shane makes his way home. On a fence he finds a stray cat that at first growls & spits at him. But Shane talks & strokes the kitten to calmness & decides to take the Spitfire Kitten Number One home with him. No gang of boys or avenue of dense traffic or fierce dog can stop Shane carrying his new found friend to the place he calls home. Greg Rogers sensitive use of charcoal & pastel create Shane & his cat in splendid city-at-night time scenes. ...