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The prose is magnificent–it sparkles, but I am not sure I fully understand the message the book was meant to convey. Your guesses are as good as mine. Parts of the story are not fully worked through. The novel was published after Woolf’s death. Sit back, enjoy the lines and think about what Woolf wants said.
We spend one day at an English countryside home. It is the day of the annual pageant--a summer day in June 1939. All of the village will attend. The weather is variable—should the performanc ...more
We spend one day at an English countryside home. It is the day of the annual pageant--a summer day in June 1939. All of the village will attend. The weather is variable—should the performanc ...more
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It was a summer’s night and they were talking, in the big room with the windows open to the garden, about the cesspool. The county council had promised to bring water to the village, but they hadn’t.
1* The Waves
2* Flush
3* Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence
4* To the Lighthouse
4* The Years
3* Monday or Tuesday
4* Orlando
4* Mrs. Dalloway
3* A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
3* The Lady in the Looking-Glass
3* Jacob's Room
3* The Du ...more
Opening lines:
It was a summer’s night and they were talking, in the big room with the windows open to the garden, about the cesspool. The county council had promised to bring water to the village, but they hadn’t.
1* The Waves
2* Flush
3* Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence
4* To the Lighthouse
4* The Years
3* Monday or Tuesday
4* Orlando
4* Mrs. Dalloway
3* A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
3* The Lady in the Looking-Glass
3* Jacob's Room
3* The Du ...more
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