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The Years (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The YearsThe principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 28 May 2009
- Format: Paperback 528 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780199555390 ISBN 10: 0199555397
- Sales rank: 597,239
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Full description for The Years
As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the 'present day' of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, the social strictures of patriarchy, capitalism and Empire, and the rise of Fascism. Engaging with a painful struggle between utopian hopefulness and crippled with despair, the novel is a savage indictment of Virginia Woolf's society, but its bitter sadness is relieved by the longing for some better way of life, where 'freedom and justice' might really be possible. This is Virginia Woolf's longest novel, and the one she found the most difficult to write. The most popular of all her writings during her lifetime, it can now be re-read as the most challengingly political, even revolutionary, of all her books.
