Night and Day

by Virginia Woolf

Overview

A romantic comedy about a woman, Katherine Hilbery, caught between her ambitions and tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781546741169
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/21/2017
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Michael H. Whitworth is the author of Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001), Virginia Woolf (2005), Reading Modernist Poetry (2010), Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway (2015), and editor of Woolf's Orlando (2015). He is a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and a University Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Oxford.

Date of Birth:

January 25, 1882

Date of Death:

March 28, 1941

Place of Birth:

London

Place of Death:

Sussex, England

Education:

Home schooling

Table of Contents

List of illustrations and list of maps; General editors' preface; Notes on the edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and work; List of abbreviations; List of archival sources for manuscript, typescript and proof material relating to Night and Day; List of editorial symbols; Introduction; Chronology of the composition of Night and Day; Maps; Night and Day; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Textual notes; Bibliography.

Editorial Reviews

‘… this Cambridge Edition should make its way to libraries, where it will quickly become the standard reference volume for scholars.’ Elizabeth Outka, Woolf Studies Annual

From the Publisher

Listeners will enjoy a vivid depiction of Edwardian society in this novel, which deals with the period’s fixed attitudes about the roles of women and marriage. The principals are Mary Datchet, an independent woman who works in an office and supports the women’s suffrage movement, and Katharine Hilbery, the only daughter of an estimable English family. Narrator Juliet Stevenson has a soft, leisurely tone that smoothly transitions from the thoughts to the voices of the characters. She captures Woolf’s brilliance for realistic dialogue and interpersonal confusion: The two male characters, William Rodney and Ralph Denham, are emphatic yet often awkward. Katharine Hilbery’s removed way of speaking characterizes her wandering thoughts. Stevenson’s reading is a delightful complement to Woolf’s prose, highlighting its diction and musicality. D.M.W. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

JUNE 2016 - AudioFile