Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf (English) Paperback Book

Description: Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf, Jackie Kay, Lisa Jardine WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINEA village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. The past blends with the present and art blends with life in a narrative full of invention, affection and lyricism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Woolfs last and most lyrical novel, a playful study on the merging of art and lifeWITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINEA village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and directed by the energetic Miss La Trobe, the pageant will take in the history of England from the Middle Ages. The past blends with the present and art blends with life in a narrative full of invention, affection and lyricism.Between the Acts was Virginia Woolfs final novel, and this edition contains the original text that she was working on when she died. Notes Woolfs last novel, with an introduction by Jackie Kay and Lisa Jardine. Back Cover WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINE One of her most original novels Michael Holroyd A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and directed by the energetic Miss La Trobe, the pageant will take in the history of England from the Middle Ages. The past blends with the present and art blends with life in a narrative full of invention, affection and lyricism. Between the Acts was Virginia Woolfs final novel, and this edition contains the original text that she was working on when she died. See also: The Voyage Out Author Biography Virginia Woolf (Author)Date- 2004-06-24Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her fathers death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of The Bloomsbury Group. This informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture.In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacobs Room (1922). Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography. On 28 March 1941, a few months before the publication of her final novel, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf committed suicide.Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid.With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life among friends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself.Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacobs Room (1922). From then on her fiction became a series of brilliant and extraordinarily varied experiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting the relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and history. She was particularly concerned with womens experience, not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of feminist polemic, A Room of Ones Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938).Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). All these are published by Penguin, as are her Diaries, Volumes I-V, and selections from her essays and short stories.Lisa Jardine (Introducer)Lisa Jardine CBE is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College, London, where she is Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge. Lisa writes and reviews for all the major UK national newspapers and magazines and for the Washington Post, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the 2000 Orwell Prize and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize. Review Woolf was an innovator who redefined the novel and pointed the way towards its future possibilities. Jeanette WintersonVirginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England andmust be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation ofexperimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition New York Times Promotional Woolfs last and most lyrical novel, a playful study on the merging of art and life Kirkus US Review Here, in her last book, is Virginia Woolf at her most tenuous, elusive, unreal. The various terms which have been applied to her art seem all to apply - "evocative", "fragile", "unsubstantial", "eclectic". The scene and the compass of this book is a pageant in a small English village, alternating with the actors of the local pageant are the figures in a private pageant of spectators:- Giles, stockbroker, at odds with his wife, Mrs. Manress, hearty, blowsy woman of forty who assumes the role of child of nature; Giles father, withered, dry, his sister a vague old lady, etc. There is no action, save in the pageant which is reproduced now in poetry, now in prose. The quality of the book lies in its nuance, its shadows, its reflections, its aestheticism. There is an ethereal, haunting, beauty, strangely distant. Sharply limited market. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Text Woolf was an innovator who redefined the novel and pointed the way towards its future possibilities. Jeanette Winterson Review Quote "Woolf was an innovator who redefined the novel and pointed the way towards its future possibilities." --Jeanette Winterson "Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation ofexperimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition." -- New York Times Promotional "Headline" Woolfs last and most lyrical novel, a playful study on the merging of art and life Details ISBN0099982609 Author Lisa Jardine Pages 176 Series Vintage classics ISBN-10 0099982609 ISBN-13 9780099982609 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.912 Death 1941 Media Book Language English Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 1992 Publication Date 1992-01-16 Imprint Vintage Classics UK Release Date 1992-01-16 AU Release Date 1992-01-16 NZ Release Date 1992-01-16 Translator Polly McLean Birth 1930 Affiliation Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications QC Alternative 9781448139071 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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