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Title: The Years by Virginia Woolf ISBN: 0-15-699701-0 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 22 October, 1969 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: This is one of Woolf's best, if not THE best. It follows a family through decades, showing the changes in them and the changes in the world around them. That stream-of-consciousness style that she is so famous for runs smoothly in The Years, and just flows over the reader. It was hard for me to tear myself away from this book. . . I had to simply shut the book, often in mid-sentance, to make myself stop reading. This comes highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Anticipation
Comment: Eleanor felt that the poor enjoyed themselves more than they did. They were stuck at home too much. In 1891 Eleanor Pargiter was a social worker. It is now 1907 and Edward Pargiter, brother of Eleanor, has produced an English translation of Sophocles's Antigone.
Moving forward, it is 1908 and Martin Pargiter has visited his father and his sister, Eleanor. 1911 produces a scene of Rose with her cousins Sarah and Maggie, daughters of Sir Digby. Maggie has married a Frenchman later on.
There is a meeting of Kitty, Lady Lasswade, and Eleanor. Following the meeting Kitty was going to the opera and so she was dressed in formal clothes. Eleanor thought that Kitty had the great lady's manner. Eleanor felt dowdy compared with Kitty. Edward Pargiter was present at the opera. Lucy Craddock had been Kitty's tutor at Oxford.
Eleanor is found at the country place of her brother Morris's mother in law. Her father died. She had no attachments at the moment. Her sister in law Celia told her there was to be a village fete. Eleanor met Sir William Whatney there. She had not seen him since he had been to India. Peggy and North, her niece and nephew, came in. She thought her growing interest in birds was a sign of old age.
Eleanor sold the family house and made arrangements for Crosby, the servant, to depart. She left with the family dog who soon had to be put down because it was aged, disabled, and suffering. Martin, called Captain Pargiter, did not marry. He encountered Kitty who introduced him to Ann Hillier. Martin said to Kitty that Eleanor was a queer old bird.
During the war Eleanor at one point dined with Maggie and her husband. Maggie felt that Eleanor looked like an abbess. The story shifts to the present day and Eleanor is shown having returned from India. It is noted by one of the characters that Edward and Kitty had been very much in love but that Kitty had married another man. Pleasure is increased by sharing it.
This book is a pleasure to have and to read. Is there a pattern, a theme? Virginia Woolf was a pattern maker. This work anticipates THREE GUINEAS and BETWEEN THE ACTS. It is in a new manner for Virginia Woolf. Leonard Woolf wrote that he did not care for it but stifled his displeasure to spare his wife agony.
Rating: 5
Summary: A True Masterpiece for all Time!
Comment: If an immortal were to ask me what is is like to be mortal, and live with a family and with time and with age, I would hand him this book, and feel confident that he would get a grasp of our experience. Mrs. Woolf has gathered the dimension of time in this novel through simple passages of conversation that left my heart sinking and rising. What an achievement!
I read this after reading Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and The Waves. It is as if in this novel she was trying to cut her style back, making it more concise, and moving away from experimentation, yet at the same time producing to most revoloionary novel of them all.
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Title: The Waves by Virginia Woolf ISBN: 0156949601 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: June, 1978 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Moments of Being: Second Edition by Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind ISBN: 0156619180 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: August, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ISBN: 0156628708 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 24 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Mary Gordon ISBN: 0156787334 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction) ISBN: 0156907399 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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