The Years (Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf ISBN 13: 9780140026481

New York. 1974. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Modern Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0140026487. Penguin Modern Classic Edition. 349 pages. paperback. The cover shows a detail from 'Self Portrait' by Gwen John, in the National Portrait Gallery, London. keywords: Penguin Modern Classic Literature England 20th Century Women Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE YEARS, during her lifetime Virginia Woolf's most popular novel, is one of the most powerful indictments of ‘Victorianism' ever written. Its first part follows the fortunes of the Pargiters, a middle-class London family, from 1880 to 1917: Colonel Abel Pargiter, hag-ridden by his invalid wife and fly-blown mistress; and all his children, fighting to escape a social system with a fixed pattern of repression. The second part finds the children grown up in the 1930s, ostensibly independent, but spiritually maimed by their upbringing . . the Victorian patriarchy has died to leave its successors willing to… Read More

Penguin. UK, 1968. Paperback. Condition: Good. Some wear to covers. Very clean interior..