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  • Published: 2 January 1992
  • ISBN: 9780140185683
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $22.99

Night and Day





new to Modern Classics

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her father's life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolf's light, delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience.

  • Published: 2 January 1992
  • ISBN: 9780140185683
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $22.99

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Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
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About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia 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 Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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