The Years (Annotated)
Contributors: Mark Hussey (Editor)
Edition: Annotated edition
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: June 23, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780156034852
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941; Fiction; Gender Studies; Literature: Classics; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Classics
First sentence: IT WAS an uncertain spring.
Description: One of Virginia Woolf's most ambitious and beloved novels, The years offers a glimpse into the lives of one upper-class English family during the turn of the century. The story begins on a day in 1880 in the household of Colonel Abel Pargiter, whose wife lies ill, gradually slipping into death in front of their seven anxious children. Over the years that follow, deaths, births, marriages, and war shape each family member's life, but it is through commonplace moments that the essence of each character is revealed. When the Pargiters, young and old, come together at a 1930s party that ends the novel, they talk, dream, and contemplate the patterns of the past and present--while the reader is left to imagine the future still to come. -- Back cover.