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A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's *The Years* is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter.
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- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- First published
- 1937
- Pages
- 427
- Publisher
- Hogarth Press, H. Hagerup, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 131
- Language
- Korean, dan, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780156997010
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“IT WAS an uncertain spring.”
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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