Between the Acts: Virginia Woolf - Brossura

Woolf, Virginia

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ISBN 10: 024137250X ISBN 13: 9780241372500

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2019

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Between the Acts, 9780241372500

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Informazioni sull?autore

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

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Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores how a community is formed (and scattered) over time. The pageant, a series of scenes from English history, and the private dramas that go on between the acts, are closely interlinked. Through the figure of Miss La Trobe, and author of the pageant, Virginia Woolf questions imperialist assumptions and, at the same time, re-creates the elusive role of the artist.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 024137250X
• ISBN 13: 9780241372500
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Redattore: McNichol Stella, Beer Gillian
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile