Night and Day (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

de Virginia Woolf (auteur), Rachel Wetzsteon (introduction), Rachel Wetzsteon (introduction et notes)

Maison d'édition : Barnes & Noble Classics

juin 2009

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Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works.

A long neglected masterpiece, Night and Day reveals Virginia Woolf’s mastery of the traditional English novel. With its classic comic structure, minutely observed characters, and delicate irony, Woolf’s second novel has invited comparison to the works of Shakespeare, Mozart, and Jane Austen.

Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the lives of two friends, Katherine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. Katherine is the bored, frustrated granddaughter of an eminent English poet. She lives at her parents’ home and is engaged to a prig who exemplifies the stultifying life from which she wishes to be free, until she meets a possible avenue of escape in the person of Ralph Denham. Mary Datchet, on the other hand, represents an alternative to marriage—she has been to college, lives on her own, and finds fulfillment in working for the women’s rights movement.

As the story dances delightfully among the novel’s brilliantly drawn characters, serious questions about the nature of romance arise. Is love real or illusory? Can love and marriage coexist? Is love necessary for happiness?

Rachel Wetzsteonis Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.

Auteur

Virginia Woolf (auteur)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), génie de la littérature britannique, est l’autrice d’une œuvre majeure dont le modernisme ne cesse de surprendre. Également critique et éditrice, elle navigue au cœur du cercle intellectuel du Bloomsbury Group et fonde en 1917, avec Leonard Woolf, sa propre maison d’édition : the Hogarth Press. Grâce à elle, le couple édite et imprime leurs œuvres, dont en 1925 « Mrs Dalloway ». Célèbre pour son écriture expérimentale et sa technique du flux de conscience, Virginia Woolf marque aussi les mémoires pour son humour intelligent et son engagement pacifiste.

Auteur(s) : Virginia Woolf