Copy of revised draft of Leonard Woolf's blurb for The Waves (c. 1950)

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[[MS 2750/575/50]]

 

Revised draft by Mr. Woolf

 

Copy.

 

THE WAVES

 

The Waves is a novel about seven people, but, like all great novels, its subject is really life, love and death and the relation of different men and women to these realities and to one another. The reader at first may not find the book easy reading, because, like Tolstoy and Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf was passionately interested in the objective realities behind the superficial stream of ordinary life and our ordinary thoughts, and she attempts to penetrate to those realities in her novel. In this book, for instance, the seven characters are all intimate friends throughout their lives and part of the "meaning" of the novel consists in its revelation of how, though each is a separate person, their intimacy and affection and the interweaving of their lives and deaths make them, in a sense, one person. Another thing which may make the book rather difficult at first reading is that, although written in prose, it has many of the characteristics of a great poem.

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Reproduced with permission from Penguin Random House UK Archive and Library owner of the Hogarth Press archive collection, and with permission from The Society of Authors. Held by the University of Reading Special Collections.

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Source: MS 2750/575/50

Image Rights Holder: Society of Authors

Copy of revised draft of Leonard Woolf's blurb for The Waves (c. 1950)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

Archival Folder:

Typed on green paper. [Related to items MS 2750/5755/48 and MS 2750/575/49]