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Between the Acts
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Virginia Woolf , Edited by Frank Kermode


Between the Acts is Virginia Woolfs last novel, and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the book weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of a war which is to change the pattern of history. Before the book was published in the spring of 1941, Virginia Woolf had taken her own life.


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Product details

Format Paperback | 256 pages
Dimensions 128 x 195 x 12mm | 180g
Publication date 12 Jun 2008
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement UK ed.
ISBN13 9780199536573
Bestsellers rank 75,394