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    ISBN: 9780199555390
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    AuthorWOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Pub Date28/05/2009
    BindingPaperback
    Pages528
    Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    During her lifetime 'The Years' was one of Virginia Woolf's most popular books, and is considered to be one of the most powerful indictments of Victorianism ever written. It traces the lives of three generations of the Pargier family from 1880 to the 1930s.

    As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the 'present day' of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, the social strictures of patriarchy, capitalism and Empire, and the rise of Fascism. Engaging with a painful struggle between utopian hopefulness and crippled with despair, the novel is a savage indictment of Virginia Woolf's society, but its bitter sadness is relieved by the longing for some better way of life, where 'freedom and justice' might really be possible. This is Virginia Woolf's longest novel, and the one she found the most difficult to write. The most popular of all her writings during her lifetime, it can now be re-read as the most challengingly political, even revolutionary, of all her books. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
    Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.