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Original Title:	The Years
ISBN:	0141185325 (ISBN13: 9780141185323)
Edition Language:	English

The Years Paperback | Pages: 444 pages

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Title	:	The Years
Author	:	Virginia Woolf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 444 pages
Published	:	February 28th 2002 by Penguin Classics (first published 1937)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. Novels. 20th Century. European Literature. British Literature. Womens

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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 the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century. Growing up in a typically Victorian household, the Pargiter children must learn to find their footing in an alternative world, where the rules of etiquette have shifted from the drawing-room to the air-raid shelter. A work of fluid and dazzling lucidity, The Years eschews a simple line of development in favour of a varied and constantly changing style, emphasises the radical discontinuity of personal experiences and historical events. Virginia Woolf's penultimate novel celebrates the resilience of the individual self and, in her dazzlingly fluid and distinctive voice, she confidently paints a broad canvas across time, generation and class.

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I didn't like Virginia Woolf's work when I first read it long ago. It was Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse, I can't remember. It seemed all a big fuss about nothing to me, and I thought if she had poverty or a job grinding the life out of her she might well be better off.I'm not sure I was wrong. Still, I wouldn't wish that on anyone.A year or so ago my partner convinced me to read Orlando and I loved it, found it hilarious and imaginative and thought provoking.The Years explained some of this

The sunlight-dappled passages of 'The Years', deciduous and delirious with Woolf's painterly vision hold the key to understanding Woolf's view of the world as an atmosphere of beauty enveloped in a haze of  human melancholy, regret and isolation; although 'The Years' ostensibly follows the Pargiter family, the true star is the city of London. Verdant and vibrant, from the tree-lined streets to  bilious  lamp-light which imbued London with a sickly luminescence, to the maze like streets which

Forgot to write little review when I read this a while back. Out of all the Woolf novels, I think this one might be the worst. It's not a bad novel, but this didn't read like Woolf. In her diary she said she didn't like this book either because she wrote this when she was sick. She says it's never a good thing when writers write when they are sick. It shows too.

I was able to get into this book quickly and it went along briskly, until the last chapter ("Present Day" which I'm guessing was 1939 when it was written). There was a party, and I was getting the people mixed up (who's married to who? Who were siblings? Who were the children?) The "younger generation" (in their 30s) were getting bored by the talk of the older generation, as was I reading it! I'm sure if I looked up critical explanations of the writing and British history during the 1880s I

It was a struggle for me to get through the party at the end--I was as bored and restless as if I was a family member. I felt as if I were North (a character I had no memory of), returned from farming in South Africa, trying to find a place in his family again. The image of the siblings who know the family history is very prominent, and the middle generation really want those older aunts and uncles to tell their story.I couldn't help but compare this book with Jane Smiley's Hundred Years

It's difficult for me to review a book like this. I really want to like it, but I guess my tastes in literature do not include Virginia Woolf's "stream of conciousness" style of writing. Every character 'dumps' his or her thoughts on you and most of the time don't even finish their thoughts. Also the dialogue is random and unfinished. In the end I felt like I didn't learn anything from the book.To me it doesn't read like a book. It's best to describe it as a series of paintings. You follow the

May 2nd 2015The Years is Virginia Woolf's ninth novel, and since it is composed of a series of vignettes about the Pargiter family covering a fifty year period, it is tempting to review it as if it were an old photograph album, one of those with layers of tissue to protect the images. As we slide the delicate paper aside, each image gradually assembles itself:1880. A family group. The bewhiskered patriarch is squarely camped on the only chair, one elbow propped against a little table on which