The Waves
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, psychologicalFriendship, fictionIdentity (Psychology)Friendship
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Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form the outer structure of the book, but the focus is the inner life of the characters which is conveyed in rich poetic language.
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British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, psychologicalFriendship, fictionIdentity (Psychology)FriendshipFiction
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
About the author
Virginia Woolf
25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source][1].) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian][2]: > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general literary language it becomes a jargon, meaningful only to an ingroup. Useful models may be found quite outs…
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