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Original Title:	The Waves
ISBN:	0156949601 (ISBN13: 9780156949606)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Susan, Bernard, Louis, Neville, Rhoda, Jinny, Percival

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

Paperback | Pages: 297 pages

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Title	:	The Waves
Author	:	Virginia Woolf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 297 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1978 by Harvest Books (first published October 8th 1931)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. Novels

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Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing them through their thoughts and interior soliloquies. As their understanding of nature’s trials grows, the chorus of narrative voices blends together in miraculous harmony, remarking not only on the inevitable death of individuals but on the eternal connection of everyone. The novel that most epitomizes Virginia Woolf’s theories of fiction in the working form, The Waves is an amazing book very much ahead of its time. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental, and thrilling.

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The sun fell in sharp wedges inside the room. Whatever the light touched became dowered with a fanatical existence. A plate was like a white lake. A knife looked like a dagger of ice. Suddenly tumblers revealed themselves upheld by streaks of light. As I turn the pages of The Waves, Virginia Woolf talks to me, to my heart, my spirit and my soul, like I could not have imagined. Such splendor and beauty come to me through her words, and I feel like singing with her. She sings life, a life that

I found some notes I took on this book a long time ago, and it desperately made me want to dive into the world of Virginia Woolf again. The Waves is probably her most challenging work (at least out of the ones I've read), and I certainly needed plenty of time, and some help, to penetrate it. This book is carried by rhythm, not plot. A poetic, dramatic description of nature and human life and all its dynamics. The sensory descriptions in it are unmatched. Writing a coherent review is difficult,

"Yes, this is the eternal renewal, the incessant rise and fall and fall and rise again."- Virginia Woolf, The WavesI've read several of Woolf's books. I've loved them all: Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Jacob's Room, A Room of One's Own, Orlando. But I think I loved this one the most. I'm not sure. But the book is swelling in me tonight. It makes me travel back to the night when with my wife's grandfather and uncles, as I ritually dressed my wife's father for burial. It makes me think of all

A review of second reading coming.Initial Review:We know so little of others. Barely we capture pieces of ourselves which can be cobbled together into what we believe ourselves to be; the unified presence necessary to calculate and cope with with the underside of the unfurling wave of life's chaos.The book opens upon a group of innocents, small sensitive children at a private school in the country. They take turns, perhaps in a game, naming what is happening around them. Would children speak in

Probably my favorite book ever written. The 'waves' become a compound metaphor of sheer brilliance; we are all a harmony in the chorus of life, a part of a whole but each an individual part of beauty equally beautiful in solidarity as the whole. I wish I could write a single sentence as glorious as Woolf.

This is a wonderful novel; Woolf herself referred to it as a play-poem. Often when Im thinking about a review I will read what others have written, do a bit of research about the context or author. In this case, that approach is not really possible because there is a whole industry around Woolf and her novels and people spend academic lifetimes on all this! Woolf said she was writing to a rhythm and not to a plot and the novel is a series of interludes and episodes revolving around six

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. Virginia Woolf ~~ The WavesThe most beautiful book I have ever read. It truly is Woolf's Masterpiece. No one has ever written of childhood, youth, middle age, and old age as eloquently as Woolf. Her prose here is stunning.The Waves is considered her most experimental novel. Rather than a plot-driven story, the stream-of-consciousness novel is told in a series of soliloquies by its main characters.A full