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This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever.In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting complexity of adult relationships. From an acute awareness of transcience, she creates an enduring work of art.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- First published
- 1927
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W., Roads Publishing, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 521
- Language
- und, Portuguese, dan, English
- ISBN
- 9798734589137
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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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