The Waves (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Psychological Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Suicide, Poetry or poets, 1920’s, 1930’s, Emotions, England or English people, Identity, Old age or elderly people, Mortality
- Locales: London, England, Midlands, England
The novel begins with a description, set in italics, of the sea at morning. Then six children in a nursery school, three boys and three girls, present their individual personalities and relationships in a series of soliloquies. The author continues to alternate short italicized accounts of the sea from morning to night with sections devoted to the six at successive stages of their lives.
They are united by their common admiration for a friend named Percival, who emerges only indirectly through their words. In a later section, the friends, grown middle-aged, reunite in a...
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