基本信息出版社：CRW Publishing Limited
页码：264 页
出版日期：2005年03月
ISBN：1904919588
条形码：9781904919582
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Collector's Library
外文书名：波浪(小说)(收藏家图书馆系列)

内容简介 MY PENGUIN BOOKS BY THE GREATS, COVERS BY YOU. Tracing the lives of a group of six friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While their individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, this novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that conveys the inner lives of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present and the meaning of life itself, in a haunting, atmospheric and sensuous exploration of the complexities of human experience. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
编辑推荐 Review
Similar in style to another modernist work, James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the novel follows its six narrators from childhood through adulthood. While Joyce's novel could be considered a Bildungsroman, Woolf's novel is more concerned with the individual consciousness and the ways in which multiple consciousnesses can weave together. The Waves is different from a Bildungsroman in that the self may very well be considered to be its own society. The difficulty of assigning genre to this novel is complicated by the fact that The Waves obliterates traditional distinctions between prose and poetry, allowing the novel to flow between six not dissimilar interior monologues. The book similarly breaks down traditional boundaries between people, and Woolf herself wrote in her Diary that the six were not meant to be separate "characters" at all, but rather facets of consciousness illuminating a sense of continuity. Even the name "novel" may not accurately describe the complex form of The Waves. Woolf herself called it not a novel but a "playpoem." (wikipedia) --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Review
'Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between L3.99 and L4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf's best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World's Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.' Review of English Studies, Vol. XLV, No. 178, May '94 (Elisabeth Jay, Westminster College, Oxford ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.