Between The Acts by Virginia Woolf (EPUB)

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Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf. In her own opinion it was `more quintessential’ than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the book weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of a war which is to change the pattern of history.Through her characters’ passionate musings and private dramas, and through the enigmatic figure of the pageant’s author, Miss La Trobe, Virginia Woolf’s final novel both celebrates and mocks Englishness. Even so, the coming of war looms over the whole community, heralding a new act.The book describes the mounting, performance and audience of a play at a festival in a small English village, just before the outbreak of the Second World War.

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⭐Virginia Woolf, once the most avant-garde of English novelists, now seems very out of date. None of her books is really a masterpiece, and this, her swan song, is arguably the weakest of all.Read her essays by all means, even her diaries and letters, but approach her novels with caution. Borrow them from the library before you spend money on them, or you might wind up with a row of books that will do nothing but gather dust on your shelves.Feminist reading of VW are mostly bad, which is a real problem, because she really was a genuine feminist. But I don’t think she’d care for what’s being done with her works posthumously by certain critics.Quentin Bell’s bio is better than any other book about her, if you want to know more than her own writing.

⭐I think this is her third best book. I love it.

⭐Book for college lit class

⭐Could be a little confusing at times, but well done.

⭐Wonderful views of the spectrum of English class and society just before World War II, including the famous mirror scene at the end. Her lyrical writing is much in evidence, and her spectrum is surprisingly broad in such a succinct novel.

⭐Good reading

⭐I love it because it is Virginia Woolf. Not one of her better-known works but artful as you would expect from this celebrated author. Not quite as well-finished as some of her other work.

⭐I can’t review Virginia Woolf… she is magnificent. This book saddened me as it was her last, but superbly written as all her works

⭐This is a complex story which reflex the life of a well to do family over one day in 1939 It captures their inner thoughts, reminiscences and hopes with the backdrop of imminent war which is scarcely mentioned.The novel moves between the extended family and the local villagers, lead by Miss La Trobe, who are putting on a pageant. There is a deep love of nature in the novel and a poignancy when one is aware that this was Woolf’s last novel. A complex novel but one worth reading.

⭐Stream of consciousness description of a day spent at a village pageant that ignores the warnings and hidden messages of the author. Strange but calming, this short book describes a lifestyle about to perish in the imminent war.

⭐I have always enjoyed Virginia Woolfs books, the characters and the interweaving of their individual stories withing the main story. Between the Acts is a very clever book, it takes a day in the life of a family and through a play put on by villagers in their grounds, it takes you through the history of England. Throughout the story there is also the foreboding of WW2 and the feeling that this might be the last time this village event would happen and possibly the last time certain members of the assembled players and audience would be there. This was Virginia’s last book and it may offer a glimpse of what was troubling her at the end of her life.

⭐Bit of a slog to read. It is Virginia Woolf’s last novel. Somehow her impending suicide hangs more heavily over it than the Second World War which had already started. It feels like a pre-War, almost Edwardian novel.

⭐I loved this book – very simple no plot but with many hidden meanings – maybe not everyone’s cuppa tea but if you like V Woolf then I can definitely recommend this book which was her last one and published posthumously

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