Virginia Woolf Library: The Years (Annotated) (Paperback)

from William345

I will not call the early going a slog, but the novel did fail to engage me until page 140 or so. After that, all was well. The novel took off as a proper Virginia Woolf novel should. By the end of the long party scene which closes the book I was familiarly dazzled. I have to admit that I find th...

from stillatim

My first time reading this Woolf, and I can see why it would have been a shock when it first came out. on the other hand, it's just as experimental as her previous handful of novels, but the experiment is different. And it's quite enjoyable, though I confess it was a bit too long. The last quarte...

from japaul22

And with that I've completed all of Virginia Woolf's novels. My next Woolf project will be to read the massive [[Hermione Lee]] biography and reread all or most of the novels. I also want to delve into some of her essays and short stories. I've only read [A Room of One's Own] of those. So what ...

from amerynth

Of the three novels I've read by Virginia Woolf ("The Years," "Jacob's Room" and "The Waves") this is the one I liked best. Perhaps because it has a more traditional narrative structure than the other two or because the overall theme was more obvious, I didn't feel as though I was missing some gr...

from pieterpad

A glorious opening paragraph sets the tone for Woolf's descriptions in this long survey of London society 1887-1937, but the narrative flags in the middle years. The close, though, set in an all-night party in the miasma of the late 1930s, is absolutely brilliant, a return to the impressionist mo...