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版次：1
页数：149
字数：
印刷时间：2000年08月01日
开本：32开
纸张：胶版纸
包装：平装
是否套装：否
国际标准书号ISBN：9780141184524

作者:Virginia Woolf　等著出版社:Penguin出版时间:2000年08月

内容简介

　　Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, "Between the Acts" is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores how a community is formed (and scattered) over time. The pageant, a series of scenes from English history, and the private dramas that go on between the acts, are closely interlinked. Through the figure of Miss La Trobe, and author of the pageant, Virginia Woolf questions imperialist assumptions and, at the same time, re-creates the elusive role of the artist.

作者简介

　　Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-centuryauthor, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literaryhistory as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was thedaughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered atraumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, andher step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdownsfor the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two yearslater her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid. Withher sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into thecompany of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and RogerFry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she metLeonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they foundedthe Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the work of T. S.Eliot, E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as theearliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life amongfriends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her timebetween London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing anotherattack of mental illness, she drowned herself. Her first novel, TheVoyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through thetransitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental andimpressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). From then on her fictionbecame a series of brilliant and extraordinarily variedexperiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting therelationship between individual lives and the forces of society andhistory. She was particularly concerned with women's experience,not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books offeminist polemic, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas(1938). Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), thehistorical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West,the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the familysaga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). All theseare published by Penguin, as are her Diaries, Volumes I-V, andselections from her essays and short stories.

<p>　　Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century
author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary
history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the
daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a
traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and
her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns
for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years
later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid. With
her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the
company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger
Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met
Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded
the Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the work of T. S.
Eliot, E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the
earliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life among
friends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time
between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another
attack of mental illness, she drowned herself. Her first novel, The
Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the
transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and
impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). From then on her fiction
became a series of brilliant and extraordinarily varied
experiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting the
relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and
history. She was particularly concerned with women's experience,
not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of
feminist polemic, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas
(1938). Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the
historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West,
the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family
saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). All these
are published by Penguin, as are her Diaries, Volumes I-V, and
selections from her essays and short stories.</p>

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