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The Waves

The Waves

Woolf, Virginia

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Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Fiction

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $9.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 15, 2026

ISBN10: 0486857719
ISBN13: 9780486857718
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Dec 15 2026
Pages: 176
Language: English

Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel immerses readers in the tides of memory, emotion, and time through the lives of six characters: Bernard, Jinny, Louis, Neville, Rhoda, and Susan. Set against a coastal landscape, their voices rise and fall like ocean waves. Published in 1931, The Waves explores themes of love, ambition, grief, and desire, particularly following the death of their friend Percival.

My difficulty is that I am writing to a rhythm and not a plot, Woolf declared. The narrative is structured like a musical composition, with recurring rhythms creating continuity beneath the ebb and flow of the characters' voices. Meaning emerges from their overlapping experiences, reinforcing Woolf's central metaphor of life as rhythmic, cyclical, and communal.

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