The Waves

The most authoritative and most closely annotated edition available of Woolf's most challenging novel.

Virginia Woolf (Author), Michael Herbert (Edited by), Susan Sellers (Edited by)

9780521852517, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 February 2011

574 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.3 x 14.5 x 3 cm, 0.89 kg

'I am grateful for the care, intelligence, and scholarship that have produced this edition.' Morris Beja, Woolf Studies Annual

The Waves is one of the greatest achievements in modern literature. Commonly considered the most important, challenging and ravishingly poetic of Virginia Woolf's novels, it was in her own estimation 'the most complex and difficult of all my books'. This edition will be the most authoritative, most fully collated and annotated text available to scholars to date, and for considerable time to come. It maps the text of The Waves from the first British edition to all other editions published in Woolf's lifetime, as well as to all extant proofs. The text is presented in clearly readable form, with page-by-page direction to emendation, variants, and notes. The substantial introduction includes a detailed account of the novel's composition, publication and early critical reception. There are extensive explanatory notes on the text, a full chronology of composition and publication and a more general chronology covering Woolf's life and works.

General editors' preface
Chronology
Introduction
Chronology of composition
The Waves
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
Textual notes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literature & literary studies [D]