The Years (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) -

Virginia Woolf

Vintage

2016

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-13: 9781784872236

A portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century - the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime

The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime, and is a powerful indictment of 'Victorianism' and its values.

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I didn't often think about how the big societal changes from the 19th century to the 20th happened within a persons life, raising such different people in just three generations of the same family. And yet, despise these changes and transformations, we as humans keep one thing the same: our desire to connect through language and conversation, and how we fail to do so.