Night and Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140185682 ISBN 13: 9780140185683

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1996

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Book by Woolf Virginia

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'Woolf's pivotal novel ... the writer feels her way into becoming the giantess she would be' Paris Review

Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience. Its protagonist, Katharine Hilbery, is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she tries to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, struggling with the weight of history - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Briggs

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Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and the individual may not necessarily coincide. At its centre is Katharine Hilbery, the beautiful grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney and her attraction to Ralph Denham, with whom she feels a more profound and disturbing affinity. Katharine's hesitation is vividly contrasted with the approach of her friend Mary Datchet, dedicated to the Women's Rights movement. The ensuing complications are underlined and to some extent unravelled by Katharine's mother, Mrs Hilbery, whose struggles to weave together the known documents, events and memories of her father's life into a coherent biography reflect Woolf's own sense of the unique and elusive nature of experience.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140185682
• ISBN 13: 9780140185683
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
• Herausgeber: Briggs Julia