Night and Day

by Virginia Woolf, Richard S. Hartmetz (Editor)

Overview

Join us for what is considered by many to be one of the greatest books of all time. Set in Edwardian London, it contrasts the lives and romances of two women, while dealing with love, happiness, success, self-discovery and even women's suffrage. Woolf is able to reveal the many facets of an individual, while capturing the nuances of a glance, a word, or a movement with phenomenal descriptions of characters and settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781489503305
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/17/2013
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen, on January 25, 1882, in Kensington, London, England. Her father was an author and historian and her mother was a renowned model.
There were many children in the household as her mother had three from her first marriage, her father had one from his first marriage and they had four together, for a total of eight.
Virginia was educated by her parents. When she was thirteen, her mother died, followed by one of her half-sisters, and she suffered a mental breakdown. Nine years later, her father passed away and she was institutionalized. She did manage to take courses at King's College, London but spent parts of 1910, 1912 and 1913 in a private facility.
In 1912, Virginia married Leonard Woolf. He was poor, but they remained happily married and founded Hogarth Press, which published Virginia's novels and works by T. S. Eliot among others.
In 1922, she had an affair with a married woman, with whom she remained close her entire life.
Her first professional work was about the home of the Bronte family in 1900, followed by a novel, "The Voyage Out," in 1915. Her last novel was "Between the Acts" in 1941.
Falling into another bout of depression, after the onset of World War II, and unable to work, Virginia filled her coat pocket with stones and walked into the River Ouse on March 28, 1941, at age 59, drowning herself. Her body was not found until April 18th. She was cremated, her ashes buried under an elm tree in their garden in Sussex, England.

Date of Birth:

January 25, 1882

Date of Death:

March 28, 1941

Place of Birth:

London

Place of Death:

Sussex, England

Education:

Home schooling

Table of Contents

List of illustrations and list of maps; General editors' preface; Notes on the edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and work; List of abbreviations; List of archival sources for manuscript, typescript and proof material relating to Night and Day; List of editorial symbols; Introduction; Chronology of the composition of Night and Day; Maps; Night and Day; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Textual notes; Bibliography.

Editorial Reviews

If Woolf was better acquainted with profound sorrow than most, she was also, by some mysterious manifestation of will, better than almost anyone at conveying the pure joy of being alive. The quotidian pleasure of simply being present in the world on an ordinary Tuesday in June. That's one of the reasons we who love her, love her as ardently as we do. She knew how bad it could get. And still, she insisted on simple, imperishable beauty, albeit a beauty haunted by mortality, as beauty always is. Woolf's adoration of the world, her optimism about it, are assertions we can trust, because they come from a writer who has seen the bottom of the bottom. In her books, life persists, grand and gaudy and marvellous; it trumps the depths and discouragements.”
—Michael Cunningham, The Guardian

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