num_pages: 256
description: The Waves is a poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival Regarded by some as her greatest literary work, The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died when he was twenty-six.
language: English
title: The Waves
titlecomplete: The Waves
characters: Susan, Louis, Bernard, Jinny, Neville, Rhoda, Percival
genres: Fiction, Poetry, British Literature, English Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 41032
awards: awardedAt: 1641024000000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books, Penguin Modern Classics