Between the Acts

Description

"Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to continue revising the book and that it was not ready for publication. Her husband prepared the work for publication after her death, and his revisions have become part of the text now widely read by students and scholars. Unlike most previous editions, the Cambridge edition returns to the final version of the novel as Woolf left it, examining the stages of composition and publication. Using the final typescript as a guide, this edition fully collates all variants and thus accounts for all the editorial decisions made by Leonard Woolf for the first published edition. With detailed explanatory notes, a chronology and an informative critical introduction, this volume will allow scholars to develop a fuller understanding of Woolf's last work"--

First Sentence

IT WAS A SUMMER'S NIGHT AND THEY WERE TALKING, in the big room with the windows open to the garden, about the cesspool.

Subjects

Other Editions

• Between the ActsHarvest Books1970-10-21
• Between the acts.Hogarth Press1953-01-01
• Between the actsPenguin Books1953-01-01
• Between the actsThe Folio Society1974-01-01
• Entre os actosCotovia1991-01-01
• MellanspelUmbra Solis1993-01-01