The Waves

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156949601 ISBN 13 : 9780156949606

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1950

Book by Woolf Virginia

Quatrième de couverture :

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JEANETTE WINTERSON AND GILLIAN BEER

'Clear, bright, burnished...a true kind of poetry' New York Times

The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and 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.

The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson, and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

See also: To the Lighthouse

Biographie de l'auteur :

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. From 1915, when she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 they founded The Hogarth Press. Virginia Woolf suffered a series of mental breakdowns throughout her life, and on 28 March 1941 she committed suicide.