The Years
Author: Virginia Woolf
The most popular of Virginia Woolf’s novels during her lifetime, The Years is a savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, edited with an introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson in Penguin Modern Classics.,,The Years is the story of three generations of the Pargiter family – their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs – mapped out against….Read More
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