Nuit Et Jour (Paperback)

from RealLifeReading

Oh Virginia Woolf, there is so much to say but will be left unsaid because that's how things seem to work in your world. Things left unsaid.For that seems to be how it is in Night and Day. In this London society where cupid's arrows seem to have flown haphazardly. For Mary loves Ralph who loves K...

from kristykay22

Described as Woolf's attempt at a classic British romance, this story of a five-way love triangle in pre-War London is a lot weirder and more Woolfy than it initially seems after you dip down under the surface. Katherine Hilbery is wealthy, beautiful, secretly mathematical, and addicted to loneli...

from japaul22

Night and Day is Woolf's second novel and is her most conventional in subject, form, and style. This is a love "pentagon" involving the wealthy Katharine Hilbery and her decision on whether to marry William Rodney or Ralph Denham. William would be the more traditional (wealthy) choice, but Denham...

from David_Cain

Virginia Woolf has no equal, and this early novel is no exception. N&D is an incredible cross between a novel of manners and the modernism that VW was creating. Incredible poetry, Delightful plots and characters, endlessly intelligent, there are few better novels to be read.

from bookwoman247

This book is about love and marriage - how relationships are affected by social mores and perceived obligations. Woolf also asks the bigger questions: What is love? What constitutes marriage? What is necessary for marital happiness? Is marriage necessary for happiness? What is happiness? These ar...