VINTAGE CLASSICS WOOLF SERIES

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her fathers death in 1904 Virginia and her sister the painter Vanessa Bell moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of śThe Bloomsbury Group. This informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful influence over early twentiethcentury British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf a writer and social reformer. Three years later her first novel The Voyage Out was published followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacobs Room (1922). Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism and biography. On 28 March 1941 a few months before the publication of her final novel Between the Acts Virginia Woolf committed suicide.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 Woolfs response to the loss of her brother Thoby who died when he was twentysix.Clear bright burnished at once marvellously accurate and subtly connotative. The pure delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetryAs a reader as a writer I constantly return for the lyricism of it the melancholy the humanity