The Years

By Virginia Woolf

As a middle-class English family move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the "present day" of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, social strictures, the abuses of pseudo-capitalism and empire, and the rise of fascism. The novel is a savage indictment of Virginia Woolf's society, but its bitter sadness is relieved by the longing for some better way of life, where "freedom and justice" might really be possible. This is Virginia Woolf's longest novel, and most popular of all her writings during her lifetime. It can now be re-read as the most challengingly political, even revolutionary, of all her books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reading Essentials
• Release date: May 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834122952

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was born in 1882, the youngest daughter of the Victorian writer Leslie Stephen. After her father's death, Virginia moved with her sister Vanessa (later Vanessa Bell) and two of her brothers, to 46 Gordon Square, which was to be the first meeting place of the Bloomsbury Group. Virginia married Leonard Woolf in 1912, and together they established the Hogarth Press. Virginia also published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1912, and she subsequently wrote eight more, several of which are considered classics, as well as two books of seminal feminist thought. Woolf suffered from mental illness throughout her life and committed suicide in 1941.