{"product_id":"the-years-virginia-woolf","title":"The Years (Virginia Woolf)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e follows the Pargiter family from 1880 into the twentieth century, moving through rooms, streets, parties, illness, memory, war and social transformation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn late Victorian London, Mrs Pargiter lies dying while the household turns around small rituals, secrets and unspoken feeling. As the years pass, Eleanor, Rose, Martin and the wider family move through adulthood, political change, generational loss and altered freedoms. Woolf builds not around a single plot but around time itself, showing how history enters drawing rooms, bodies, conversations and recollection. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by Susan Hill, \u003ci\u003eThe Years \u003c\/i\u003eis Virginia Woolf's most popular novel from her lifetime, a powerful modernist family saga about London, class, women's lives, memory and the passing of an era. It is ideal for readers looking for accessible Woolf, literary classics and fiction that catches consciousness in motion. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003cb\u003eSUSAN HILL\u003c\/b\u003e has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eStrange Meeting\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI'm the King of the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Springtime of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Mist in the Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in Black \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 416 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65899196449117,"sku":"K061007122","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/6100712200001A.jpg?v=1789184953","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-years-virginia-woolf","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}