The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

1950300 pages

Harvest Books·255 editions

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sirberusMar 14

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken — I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.”
—Woolf

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The Waves

Threnody for the victims of HER-o-SHE-ma

Six characters babble themselves into existence through drone notes of internal monologue. But their placement in a chorus dooms them to the back o...

The Waves

The most perfect novel ever written.

This masterpiece right here is, to me, the most striking demonstration of the power that novelistic expression (or even literary expression in gene...