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"I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me."

The Waves is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, standing with those few works of twentieth-century literature that have created unique forms of their own. In deeply poetic prose, Woolf traces the lives of six children from infancy to death who fleetingly unite around... Read Full Overview

Widely regarded as Virginia Woolf's most experimental and innovative novel, The Waves is a profound exploration of self, identity, and the interconnectedness of human experience.

The Waves is structured around the soliloquies of six distinct characters,... Read Full Overview

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics. More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing... Read Full Overview

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics.

Widely regarded as Virginia Woolf's most experimental and innovative novel, The Waves is a profound exploration of self, identity, and the interconnectedness of human experience.

The Waves is structured around the soliloquies of six distinct characters,... Read Full Overview

The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered by many to be her most experimental work, and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though... Read Full Overview

The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered her most experimental work, and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never... Read Full Overview

The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered her most experimental work, and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never... Read Full Overview

Las olas se centra en la vida de seis personajes, tres mujeres y tres hombres, que son amigos desde la infancia. Mediante el mon?logo interior de cada uno de ellos se va tejiendo la historia de unas existencias fr?giles y ?speras, repletas de secretos, dudas, sue?os y... Read Full Overview

En Las olas, Woolf presenta un grupo de seis amigos cuyas reflexiones, que est n m s cercanas a los recitativos que a los mon logos interiores propiamente dichos, crean una atm sfera como de olas que es m s cercano a un poema en prosa que a una novela con una trama central.1... Read Full Overview

The Waves is a novel by Virginia Woolf. The book is distinct for its experimental-style prose, such as the heavy usage of soliloquies by the main characters of the narrative. The first prominent theme readers discover in the story is the yearning for acceptance and the concept... Read Full Overview

The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered by many to be her most experimental work, and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though... Read Full Overview

Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her earlier, more accessible... Read Full Overview