Total Page : 705
Publisher : Thorndike Press
Publication Date : 2003 06 02
>> You will want to read this Night and Day
A delightful edition of a masterpiece Woolf was a profound writer and she stories are deep and complex She wrote about the feelings that most of us have experienced at one time or another This is why her work is considered by so many of her readers as something very special Understood by women everywhere and a book that women should read at least once its also a good book for men to read to help understand women
To understand love read Night and Day
Profound
>> A charming edition and well recommended a book that you must read
Others have done a great job reviewing this wonderful book I ll only add that I was just as happy re reading this masterpiece
This is a charming edition and I loved the cover
>> Woolf s flawed second novel
Katherine Hilbery has everything she is beautiful well born intelligent kind reflective sensitive though not in a sentimental way but bored She must find a purpose in life other than being of a wealthy Chelsea family and the descendant of a famous poet and she must choose between the weak willed sophisticate William and the tempestuous Ralph Though the love of the self sacrificing suffragette Mary Datchet for Ralph and the upcoming law clerk s failure to realise he is in thrall to Katherine provide a few twists and turns such is in essence the plot of Night and Day
All would be well if this were the psychological drama it appears to be set in an atmospheric turn of the century London But Virginia Woolf also pursues a political message in this novel women answer to male stereotypes and vice versa The women are logical and career minded the men coy and romantic This might be fine and it makes for a few good scenes except that it doesn t quite fit the characters Mary s ill starred fate seems gratuitous Katherine s interest in mathematics is too obviously a code never properly illustrated And her falling in love with Ralph isn t credible she is too good for him and it is all too sudden It seems Night and Day can t quite choose what it is supposed to be psychological or social comedy It lacks the simplicity of Woolf s first novel The Voyage Out the wistfulness of Mrs Dalloway or the experimental complexity of her later works
