The Years
Years, The,a novel by V. Woolf , published 1937 .
Her longest novel, and the most traditional of her later works, it traces the history of a family, opening in 1880 as the children of Colonel and Mrs Pargiter , living together in a large Victorian London house (later described by one of them as ‘Hell’), wait for their mother's death and the freedom it will bring; it takes them through several carefully dated and documented sections to the ‘Present Day’ of 1936 , and a large family reunion, where two generations gather. Its composition caused the author much difficulty, and she was even more than usually apprehensive about its reception, fearing that her return to the ‘novel of fact’ would be seen as a false step in her career; many of her friends were critical, but it was on the whole well reviewed, and sold well.
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