A long neglected masterpiece, Night and Day reveals Virginia Woolf’s mastery of the traditional English novel. With its classic comic structure, minutely observed characters, and delicate irony, Woolf’s second novel has invited comparison to the works of Shakespeare, Mozart, and Jane Austen. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the lives of two friends, Katherine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. Katherine is the bored, frustrated granddaughter of an eminent English poet. She lives at her parents’ home and is engaged to a prig who exemplifies the stultifying life from which she wishes to be free, until she meets a possible avenue of escape in the person of Ralph Denham. Mary Datchet, on the other hand, represents an alternative to marriage—she has been to college, lives on her own, and finds fulfillment in working for the women’s rights movement. As the story dances delightfully among the novel’s brilliantly drawn characters, serious questions about the nature of romance arise. Is love real or illusory? Can love and marriage coexist? Is love necessary for happiness?
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Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf
Estreou na literatura em 1915 com um romance (The Voyage Out) e posteriormente teria realizado uma série de obras notáveis, as quais lhe valeriam o título de "a Proust inglesa". Faleceu em 1941, tendo cometido suicídio. Virginia Woolf era filha do editor Leslie Stephen, o qual deu-lhe uma educação esmerada, de forma que a jovem teria frequentado desde cedo o mundo literário. Em 1912, casou-se com Leonard Woolf, com quem funda, em 1917, a Hogarth Press, editora que revelou escritores como Katherine Mansfield e T.S. Eliot. Virginia Woolf apresentava crises depressivas. Em 1941, deixou um bilhete para seu marido, Leonard Woolf, e para a irmã, Vanessa. Neste bilhete, ela se despede das pessoas que mais amara na vida, e se mata de forma triunfante.
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