The Years

Author : Virginia Woolf,Hermione Lee

Paperback

Published : Thursday 28 May 2009

ISBN : 9780199555390

Price : €11.69

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As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the `present day of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, the social strictures of patriarchy, capitalism and Empire, and the rise of Fascism. Engaging with a painful struggle between utopian hopefulness and crippled with despair, the novel is a savage indictment of Virginia Woolfs society, but its bitter sadness is relieved by the longing for some better way of life, where `freedom and justice might really be possible. This is Virginia Woolfs longest novel, and the one she found the most difficult to write. The most popular of all her writings during her lifetime, it can now be re-read as the most challengingly political, even revolutionary, of all her books.

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