THE WAVES

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics.More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experien ce. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While socia l events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expre...[Read more]