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Night And Day

Night And Day

Woolf, Virginia

Hardcover

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1169340822
ISBN13: 9781169340824
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 426
Weight: 2.10
Height: 0.94 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf that explores the lives and relationships of a group of young people in early 20th century London. The story follows the lives of two women, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet, who come from different social backgrounds but share a desire for independence and intellectual stimulation. Katharine is the daughter of a wealthy and respected family and is engaged to the ambitious and practical William Rodney. Mary is a working-class woman who is passionate about social reform and is attracted to the idealistic Ralph Denham. The novel is set against the backdrop of the suffrage movement and the changing roles of women in society. Woolf uses the characters' conversations and thoughts to explore themes of love, marriage, gender roles, and the pursuit of personal fulfillment. Throughout the novel, Woolf experiments with narrative techniques, using stream-of-consciousness and shifting perspectives to give readers insight into the characters' inner lives. The novel also includes vivid descriptions of London and its cultural scene, as well as references to literary and artistic figures of the time. Overall, Night and Day is a complex and thought-provoking novel that offers a nuanced portrayal of the social and intellectual climate of early 20th century London.London, in the first days of spring, has buds that open and flowers that suddenly shake their petals--white, purple, or crimson--in competition with the display in the garden beds, although these city flowers are merely so many doors flung wide in Bond Street and the neighborhood, inviting you to look at a picture, or hear a symphony, or merely crowd and crush yourself among all sorts of vocal, excitable, brightly colored human beings.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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