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 lyricism.
Between the Acts was Virginia Woolf's final novel, and this edition contains the original text that she was working on when she died.
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Publisher:
London, Eng. : Vintage, c1941.
Edition:
Definitive ed.
ISBN:
9780099982609
0099982609
0099982609
Characteristics:
xiv, 138 p. ;,20 cm.
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Add a CommentOn March 28, 1941, Virginia Woolf put on an overcoat, loaded the pockets with stones, and drowned herself in the river Ouse in Sussex. She was 59. Woolf suffered from what we now diagnose as bi-polar disorder. "Between the Acts," was her final novel, published after her death. Like her groundbreaking "Mrs. Dalloway," it takes place on a single day. Perhaps even more than her contemporary titans of modernism like Joyce, Eliot, whom she helped publish, Proust, Woolf was in tune with the changing consciousness of the age and dedicated to capturing it in her prose, which stretched the conventions of the novel. This edition includes an introduction and annotations, which give are helpful, as it's highly allusive.