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Here is Virginia Woolf at her Orlandoesque playfulness.
In a country house, somewhere in England, the residents and others prepare for a pageant, annually performed in the house grounds. It is just weeks out from WW2. The pageant, a celebration of English history, is attended by the entire local community. There, amidst the rush, the leisure and lingering, Woolf has canvas fit to serve her swirling brush.
The writing is filled with hidden meanings, many of them tucked away in seemingly innocuous r ...more
In a country house, somewhere in England, the residents and others prepare for a pageant, annually performed in the house grounds. It is just weeks out from WW2. The pageant, a celebration of English history, is attended by the entire local community. There, amidst the rush, the leisure and lingering, Woolf has canvas fit to serve her swirling brush.
The writing is filled with hidden meanings, many of them tucked away in seemingly innocuous r ...more
Haunting, even more so due to the fact, that this was the last book Virginia Woolf wrote, before her suicide.
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