Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

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Summary

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham.

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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

'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
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915. Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), Orlando (1928), The Waves (1931), The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).
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ISBN 13 9780140185683
ISBN 10 0140185682
Title Night and Day
Author Virginia Woolf
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1992-01-02
Number of pages 496
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.