The Waves

Name: The Waves
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9789629546199

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Frances Jeater

Abridged: 5 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 07/01/2003

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. It was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental literary powers, and she allows each character to tell their own story, through powerful, poetic monologues. by listening to these voices struggling to impose order and meaning on their lives we are drawn into a literary journey which stunningly reproduces the complex, confusing and contradictory nature of human experience. This is the only recording available of The Waves on CD. It is read with affection and skill by Frances Jeater.

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist, and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. In 1917, she and her husband founded the Hogarth Press, which published the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Katherine Mansfield, as well as the earliest translations of Sigmund Freud. Her major novels include Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves, The Years, and Between the Acts. She is also the author of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet on March 01, 2016

For the unprepared reader the first fifty pages can be as baffling as an unknown code. But once the code is cracked, the whole experiment has a brilliant simplicity. Imagine this: a biography of you and your five best friends. From early childhood to death. Told not within the usual matrix of bald a......more

Goodreads review by Vit on February 02, 2024

The Waves is like a song sung by the surf on a bright breezy day… ‘I see a ring,’ said Bernard, ‘hanging above me. It quivers and hangs in a loop of light.’ ‘I see a slab of pale yellow,’ said Susan, ‘spreading away until it meets a purple stripe.’ ‘I hear a sound,’ said Rhoda, ‘cheep, chirp; cheep chi......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on December 19, 2015

The Waves Playlist Pop songs, not classical or Jazz. [URL not allowed] The characters Rules: One song each. Gender matching. Must express as many of the key character traits as possible. I must love it. Bernard: Bob Dylan – To Ramona Susan: Kate bush - Mrs. Bartolozzi Rhoda: Throw......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on May 29, 2024

Easily one of my favorite books ever written. The 'waves' become a compound metaphor of sheer brilliance; we are all a harmony in the chorus of life, a part of a whole but each an individual part of beauty equally beautiful in solidarity as the whole. I wish I could write a single sentence as glorio......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on April 28, 2019

The Waves is an absolute masterpiece: it’s an incredible novel that flows beautifully with torrents of majestic prose. “I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rol......more