BETWEEN THE ACTS by Virginia Woolf ~ 1941 ~ FIRST American Edition 1st Printing

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BETWEEN THE ACTSbyVirginia WoolfFIRST American Edition, First PrintingNew York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941. 1st American Edition. 8vo - 5.5 x 8.25 Inches. 219 pp. Novel published posthumously by Leonard Woolf, who states in a note: "The MS. of this book had been completed, but had not been finally revised for the printer, at the time of Virginia Woolf's death. She would not, I believe, have made any large or material alterations in it, though she would probably have made a good many small corrections or revisions before passing the final proofs."Condition : A VERY GOOD hardback in a VERY GOOD dust jacket which minor wear to extremities and spine. The textblock and pages inside are clean and unmarked. The binding is firm and square.I also have the same book listed in AUCTION style . Please check it out if you are interested.Synopsis:Virginia Woolf's last novel, set in an English village on a single summer day when the local pageant is produced.Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts , was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to continue revising the book and that it was not ready for publication. Her husband prepared the work for publication after her death, and his revisions have become part of the text now widely read by students and scholars. Unlike most previous editions, the Cambridge edition returns to the final version of the novel as Woolf left it, examining the stages of composition and publication. Using the final typescript as a guide, this edition fully collates all variants and thus accounts for all the editorial decisions made by Leonard Woolf for the first published edition. With detailed explanatory notes, a chronology and an informative critical introduction, this volume will allow scholars to develop a fuller understanding of Woolf's last work.About the Author:Born in 1882, the daughter of Julia Jackson Duckworth and Victorian scholar Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia Stephen settled in 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, in 1904. This house would become the first meeting place of the now-famous Bloomsbury Group-writers, artists, and intellectuals such as E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, and Lytton Strachey who, along with Virginia and her sister Vanessa, shared an intense belief in the importance of the arts and a skepticism regarding their society's conventions and restraints. It was after Virginia's 1912 marriage to Leonard Woolf - a remarkable and supportive twenty-nine-year-union that she began to publish her major work. Her first novel, The Voyage Out , appeared in 1915 and was followed by Night and Day (1919), Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), The Waves (1931), and The Years (1937). Woolf is also admired for her contributions to literary criticism in general and to feminist criticism in particular, with A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1937) reflecting the full range of her intellectual vigor, insight, and compassion for the role cast for female artists in the modern world. Additionally, Woolf's diary and correspondence, published posthumously, provide an invaluable window into her world offer-flung relationships and interests, imaginative depth, and creative method. The victim of a lifetime of mental illness, Woolf com-mitted suicide in 1941. She left behind her a literary legacy, including The Hogarth Press, established with Leonard in 1917, which published not only Woolf's own work but that of an increasingly influential group of innovative writers, including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Katherine Mansfield.Combined shipping available: FREE shipping for any additional copies .INTERNATIONAL buyers: If the Global Shipping Program is unavailable, or more expensive, for shipping to your country, I'm glad to ship the book for $ 32.95 to Europe ($23.95 to Canada, $30.95 to Asia, etc.) in a Priority Mail Padded Flat Rate envelope (with a self-made sturdy carton put insid... read more

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