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The Waves
Virginia Woolf · Literary Fiction · 304 pages
42 Pulse Score
Based on recommendations from independent creators
multiple timelinescoming of age
#224 All Time
About this book
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form the outer structure of the book, but the focus is the inner life of the characters which is conveyed in rich poetic language.
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