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"Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to continue revising the book and that it was not ready for publication.
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- contemplativerelentless
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- intimateepic
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- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 157
- Publisher
- Stock, Blackwell Publishing Limited, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Editions
- 263
- Language
- Spanish, English, French, cat
- ISBN
- 9798666501900
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“IT WAS A SUMMER'S NIGHT AND THEY WERE TALKING, in the big room with the windows open to the garden, about the cesspool.”
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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