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The Waves
By (author) Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel immerses readers in the tides of memory, emotion, and time through the lives of six characters: Bernard, Susan, Neville, Jinny, Louis, and Rhoda. Set against a coastal landscape, their voices rise and fall like ocean waves. Published in 1931, The Waves explores themes of love, ambition, grief, and desire, particularly following the death of their friend Percival. ""My difficulty is that I am writing to a rhythm and not a plot,"" Woolf declared. The narrative is structured like a musical composition, with recurring rhythms creating continuity beneath the ebb and flow of the characters' voices. Meaning emerges from their overlapping experiences, reinforcing Woolf's central metaphor of life as rhythmic, cyclical, and communal.
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Publisher | Dover Publications Inc.
Published date | 15 Jan 2027
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 176
Dimensions | 203 x 127 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-4868-5771-8
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BISAC | fiction / general
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