The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

Sam Gilpin (Afterword)

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The Waves traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an exploratory and sensuous narrative. The Waves was conceived and written during a highly political phase in Woolfs career, when she was speaking on issues of gender and of class. This was also the period when her love affair with Vita Sackville-West was at its most intense. The work is often described as if it were the product of a secluded, disembodied sensibility. Yet its writing is supremely engaged and engaging, providing an experience which the reader is unlikely to forget.

With an Afterword by Sam Gilpin.

  • ISBN10 1904919588
  • ISBN13 9781904919582
  • Publish Date 1 March 2005 (first published 8 October 1931)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 20 February 2015
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Macmillan Collector's Library
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 264
  • Language English