Between the Acts
$25.20
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
3 April 1992
Summary
Woolf’s last and most lyrical novel, a playful study on the merging of art and life
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINE
A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and directed by the energetic Miss La Trobe, the pageant will take in the history of England from the Middle Ages. The past blends with the present and art blends with life in a narrative full of invention, affection and lyric…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099982609 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099982609 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf, Jackie Kay, Lisa Jardine |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 3 April 1992 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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Critics Review
‘Woolf was an innovator who redefined the novel and pointed the way towards its future possibilities.’ Jeanette Winterson
‘Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England andmust be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation ofexperimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition’ New York Times
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (Author)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.
Lisa Jardine (Introducer)
Lisa Jardine CBE is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College, London, where she is Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge. Lisa writes and reviews for all the major UK national newspapers and magazines and for the Washington Post, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the 2000 Orwell Prize and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
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