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    The Years by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Years by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Years by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    The Years by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Years with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Years by Virginia Woolf, which follows the members of the same family, the Pargiters, over three generations. In this time, their lives and the world around them change drastically, and they struggle to grasp the meaning of life and connect with other people. The Years was both the last and the most popular of Virginia Woolf’s novels to published during her lifetime. Woolf is widely considered to be one of the most significant English-language writers of the 20th century; her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and Orlando, and the essays A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas.

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    • Key themes and symbols
    • Questions for further reflection

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateApr 8, 2019
    ISBN9782808019095
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      The Years by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      ENGLISH WRITER

      Born in London in 1882.

      Died in Rodmell (Lewes, East Sussex) in 1941.

      Notable works:

      Mrs Dalloway (1925), novel

      To the Lighthouse (1927), novel

      The Waves (1931), novel

      Virginia Woolf was a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and publisher. She is a key figure in 20th-century literature and is particularly recognised as a modernist and feminist author. A daughter of a prominent man of letters, Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), she was always a voracious reader. After the deaths of her mother and step-sister, soon followed by her father and brother, her adolescent traumas left her prone to mental breakdowns and hearing voices. With her sister Vanessa Bell (painter, 1879-1961), she gathered bohemian intellectuals to form the Bloomsbury Group. The Hogarth Press, which she and her husband Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) founded in 1917, published emerging, innovative writers. Her own writing – especially from her third novel, Jacob’s Room (1922), onwards – is noted for its lyrical, impressionistic, and experimental style, departing from objective realism and continuously exploring fresh ways of expressing the inner lives of individuals. She also wrote the influential feminist treatises A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938). Fearing another onset of mental illness, she drowned herself in the River Ouse near her home in 1941.

      A CHRONICLE OF THE PARGITER FAMILY FROM THE 1880S TO THE 1930S

      Genre: novel (also described as an essay-novel)

      Reference edition: Woolf, V. (2002) The Years. London: Penguin Books.

      1stedition: 1937

      Themes: time, memory, life, consciousness,

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