Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

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9781632060327
Published:
22 Aug 2019
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
xxii, 470 pages
Dimensions:
227x152x31mm
Weight:
0.740kgs
Author:
The 100th Anniversary Edition of Virginia Woolf's timely, overlooked second novel-a remarkable story of two women navigating the possibilities opened up by the struggle for women's suffrage-introduced for Restless Classics by bestselling author of Fates and Furies Lauren Groff and illustrated by graphic artist Kristen Radtke.

The 100th Anniversary Edition of Virginia Woolf's timely, overlooked second novel-a remarkable story of two women navigating the possibilities opened up by the struggle for women's suffrage-introduced for Restless Classics by bestselling author of Fates and Furies Lauren Groff and illustrated by graphic artist Kristen Radtke.

Since its publication in 1919, Virginia Woolf's second novel has been largely dismissed as "traditional"-but reading the book more closely today shows us just how prescient and unconventional it was. On its surface, Night and Day plays with the tropes of Shakespearean comedy: We follow the romantic endeavors of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet, as love is confessed and rebuffed, partners switched, weddings planned and cancelled, until we finally arrive at two engagements. But these dramas play out against the first steps of the women's suffrage movement, as women's roles in society fitfully started to shift away from charm, subservience, and self-sacrifice toward equal partnership. Ultimately, Woolf's novel is a subversive challenge to the male-writer establishment of the Edwardian age-Henry James, E.M. Forster, their forebears and successors-that undercuts the unequal gender dialectic on which their plots depend.

The Virginia Woolf of Night and Day is every bit as brilliant, funny, sharp, and imbued with a deep love of language as in her celebrated later works Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. What makes Night and Day so remarkable is its devotion to "real life." As bestselling author of Fates and Furies Lauren Groff writes in her introduction, "Virginia Woolf, in pushing outward in this book toward an articulation of a new and better kind of marriage, doesn't stop for a moment to try to seduce the reader into loving her characters-she is too fixated on breaking new ground and exploring her ideas."

This edition, beautifully illustrated by Kristen Radtke, celebrates the 100th anniversary of this key work not only of the Woolf canon, but also of the vital history of feminist literature.

About the Author: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is the author of acclaimed works of fiction like Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) as well as the feminist call to arms, A Room of One's Own (1929). Born to a wealthy family in South Kensington, London, Woolf was the seventh child of eight. Her mother died in 1895 and Woolf experienced her first mental breakdown; two years later, Woolf's stepsister and surrogate mother, Stella Duckworth, also died. After attending the Ladies' Department of King's College London, Woolf started to write seriously with the encouragement of her father. Woolf's father died in 1905 and Woolf experienced a second mental breakdown. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912 and in 1917 they founded Hogarth Press. At the age of 37, Woolf published her second novel, Night and Day. She continued to have a successful literary career and is remembered as one of the most important modernist writers of the twentieth century. Woolf also had an affair with peer and author Vita Sackville-West, who is the inspiration for the main character in Orlando (1928). At the age of 59, Woolf drowned herself in a river; she struggled with bouts of depression and bipolar disorder throughout her life.

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