
The Waves
Virginia Woolf(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 24. February 2011
Book
Hardback
574 pages
978-0-521-85251-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Waves is one of the greatest achievements in modern literature. Commonly considered the most important, challenging and ravishingly poetic of Virginia Woolf's novels, it was in her own estimation 'the most complex and difficult of all my books'. This edition will be the most authoritative, most fully collated and annotated text available to scholars to date, and for considerable time to come. It maps the text of The Waves from the first British edition to all other editions published in Woolf's lifetime, as well as to all extant proofs. The text is presented in clearly readable form, with page-by-page direction to emendation, variants, and notes. The substantial introduction includes a detailed account of the novel's composition, publication and early critical reception. There are extensive explanatory notes on the text, a full chronology of composition and publication and a more general chronology covering Woolf's life and works.
Reviews / Votes
Review of the series: 'The new collection [The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf] will prove itself indispensable to serious Woolfians.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Readers will find this edition of The Waves to be a highly valuable resource with which to form their own readings ... The rich groundwork laid by this new edition of The Waves places readers in the midst of this novel's astonishing complexity, helping us unlock its many mysteries while revealing new ones.' Women: A Cultural Review 'I am grateful for the care, intelligence, and scholarship that have produced this edition.' Morris Beja, Woolf Studies AnnualMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
847 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-85251-7 (9780521852517)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Michael Herbert is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. Susan Sellers is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.
Author
Editor
University of St Andrews, Scotland
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Content
General editors' preface; Chronology; Introduction; Chronology of composition; The Waves; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Textual notes.