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Night and day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and the individual may not necessarily coincide.
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Prestige, spare, classical in form and character-led.
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- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- First published
- 1919
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Portmay Press, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, eBooksLib
- Editions
- 215
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, German
- ISBN
- 9781682040270
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“It was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouring out tea.”
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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