The Years by Virginia Woolf (EPUB)

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The most popular of Virginia Woolf’s novels during her lifetime, first published in 1937, “The Years” is a savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century.”The Years” is the story of three generations of the Pargiter family – their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs – mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London’s streets during the first decades of the twentieth century. Growing up in a typically Victorian household, the Pargiter children must learn to find their footing in an alternative world, where the rules of etiquette have shifted from the drawing-room to the air-raid shelter. A work of fluid and dazzling lucidity, “The Years” eschews a simple line of development in favour of a varied and constantly changing style, emphasises the radical discontinuity of personal experiences and historical events. Virginia Woolf’s penultimate novel celebrates the resilience of the individual self and, in her dazzlingly fluid and distinctive voice, she confidently paints a broad canvas across time, generation and class.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from “Mrs Dalloway” (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel “The Waves” (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive “Orlando” (1928) and “A Room of One’s Own” (1929) a passionate feminist essay.

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⭐MRS. DALLOWAY and TO THE LIGHTHOUSE are incredible novels. THE YEARS is even more mind-bending. I read a library copy and was so stunned by it, I immediately ordered one from Amazon, which I’m reading again now. I know of no one who writes about the intangible, mysterious timelessness of human consciousness as well as Virginia Woolf. Unlike James Joyce, she doesn’t get tangled up in her own ego. Unlike William Burroughs, she doesn’t write like she’s never recovered from acid trips. Yet the effect of her art is greater on the reader’s consciousness than either of those two (whose writing I do value highly). The unadorned purity of her writing is simply amazing.

⭐In the first few chapters I was frequently and deeply moved by the evocative writing. The story holds up but unfortunatly the lyrical aspect to the writing is spotty. It’s a shame the book didn’t have better editing to smooth that out. Even so it’s definitely worth reading, especially if you’ve enjoyed the movie, because the book, naturally, has more depth and dimension to it.

⭐I was an English major, but somehow, I never read anything by Virginia Woolf, so when our book club suggested this book, I was all in favor of it. But I found it tedious and boring. The point of view is constantly shifting between different characters, in a way that feels amateurish to me, though obviously Ms. Woolf is no amateur. So apparently this is supposed to work, and to mean something, but I just found it annoying. There is a large family of children, I couldn’t even keep count of how many, and they all grow up and have children, and the people pop in and out of the story–it was just a muddle to me. Even the supposedly evocative descriptions of the weather and the landscape fell flat for me. The only positive thing in the book to me was the descriptions of locales in London. Otherwise, I simply had no interest in any of the characters. And in the end, nothing ever happened. Years go by. But we knew that.

⭐FIRST LINE REVIEW: “It was an uncertain spring.” Well, I was certainly eager to spring into my first Virginia Woolf novel, but now I’m no longer certain I want to read another. Scandalous, I know! This one left me appreciating her writing, but bogged down by the lack of a plot and a confusing array of characters. I should have kept notes on how they are all related to each other. Ultimately, glad that I read it, but underwhelmed by the experience.

⭐Any Virginia Woolf lover would love this. It takes some time to read to really understand what is going on – especially if you aren’t familiar with her writing style – but it is well worth it. Would not recommend this as a first read of Woolf’s, but definitely for a developed fan that has not yet reached this point in her collection.

⭐This book is like a classic painting, and it is like a Lily among thorns, so to speak. It is. a signature style that is intelligent, interesting, and unique. I say it is a masterpiece. I highly recommend this book for such a great style of writing, and for the learning experience.

⭐If they are going to charge ten bucks for an e-book, they could at least have it proof-read. They obviously didn’t – just scanned some print edition and published the result without even looking at it. The software saw the word “the” as “die” about half the time, for instance, so that’s what appears in the kindle edition. Too often kindle books are riddled with typos like this. They should either do some quality control, or lower the price.

⭐got for granddaughter’s class

⭐In this novel, which seems sharper, edgier, than most of her others, Woolf seems to look forward to the surge of longing for self expression and ‘freedom’ that burst out in the post war years and found its greatest expression in the youth of the fifties and sixties. She contrasts this with the constricted and at times almost tribal late Victorian and Edwardian way of living. Interestingly she is deeply critical of the shallow obsession with socialising and ‘acting’ in conformity to the herd. Surely this is something that has seen a resurgence at the expense of the individual life, true to itself, with the advent of social media.

⭐Well written. Hard to read this past year due to family members enduring a stroke then bowel cancer in other parent. Everyone on the mend now!

⭐I am a huge fan of Virginia Woolf but this is not her best work.

⭐Fine, copy as expected

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