Originally published in October 1919, Night and Day is Virginia Woolf's second novel. It contrasts the daily lives of four major characters while examining the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.
This is Woolf's excellent, poignant attempt to write the traditional English novel. Though it bears resemblance to E.M. Forster and Jane Austen's "novel of manners," the roots of Woolf's later revolutionary, unique style of writing fiction is evident. Vividly drawn characters and situations which ask relevant questions of the day about love, marriage and gender roles in Edwardian society.
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This is Woolf's excellent, poignant attempt to write the traditional English novel. Though it bears resemblance to E.M. Forster and Jane Austen's "novel of manners," the roots of Woolf's later revolutionary, unique style of writing fiction is evident. Vividly drawn characters and situations which ask relevant questions of the day about love, marriage and gender roles in Edwardian society.