Waves

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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")."