- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Friendship, fiction, Identity (Psychology)
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form the outer structure of the book, but the focus is the inner life of the characters which is conveyed in rich poetic language.
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Contemplative, prestige, grave and earnest.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- First published
- 1931
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Bibliotech Press, Harcourt, Brace and Company, Independently Published
- Editions
- 255
- Language
- hun, fin, Dutch, Italian
- ISBN
- 9798599888239
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“THE sun had not yet risen.”
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf).) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice): > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general
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