Name: Night and Day
SKU: 60397282
Price: 887.00 TWD
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Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781530307555

Type

Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Illustrated by

Hao Luo

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

442

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.5 cm

Weight

0.64 kg.

ISBN13

9781530307555

Synopsis "Night and Day"

Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. The novel sets in Edwardian London, and deals with issues concerning women's suffrage, if love and marriage can coexist, and if marriage is necessary for happiness. The novel opens with Katharine Hilbery pouring tea at an afternoon party at her parents'house.(Many of the key events and conversations in the novel take place over that peculiarly English convention, afternoon tea.) A late guest at the tea party is Ralph Denham, a young solicitor who has recently contributed an article to the review edited by Katharine's father. At first meeting, Katharine and Denham take a slight dislike to each other: He is unimpressed by her aristocratic heritage (she belongs to one of the most distinguished families in England), and she finds him dull. At this point in the proceedings, Katharine is being courted by William Rodney, a cultured but somewhat vain man, who works in a government office during the day but indulges his chief love, literature, in the evenings. Denham's closest friendship is with Mary Datchet, who is involved in the women's suffrage movement. She and Denham have known each other for two years, but she is an independent spirit and does not want to marry him, or anyone else... Virginia Woolf did a wonderful job of revealing the many facts of an individual. In this novel, she applied that task to couples in love. It is a marvel that she not only identified the many nuances of a glance, a word, a movement, but that she also conveyed them to the reader in perfect sentences.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.

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