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The Waves

Virginia Woolf · Literary Fiction · 304 pages

42 Pulse Score

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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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