Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts
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(Green Light Jan. 3, 2012)
Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf. It was published shortly after her suicide in 1941.The novel takes place as a festival play is being mounted and preformed in a small English town. Many of the themes and techniques from her former novels are carried into this one. It's set in pre-World War II and themes of the war are throughout. A particularly interesting technique being the use of rhyme words to suggest hidden meanings. Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Look for more classic books from Green Light. Visit us at - GreenLighteBooks.tumblr.comTwitter - @GreenLightbooks and facebook.com/greenlightbooks