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Between the Acts (Oxford World's Classics)
Between the Acts - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own opinion it was 'more quintessential' than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the book weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of a war which is to change the p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199536573
ISBN-10: 0199536570
Publication Date: 6/12/2008
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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It is set in rural England within a single day in 1939. Worlds meet, but never unite. Miss La Trobe has organised a pageant, a dramatic version of 'Orlando'. During the performance the spectators are held together. Unity apprears to be triumphant. But not for long. When the play ends they fall apart again. And even between the acts the semblance of unity is lost...

'Miss La Trobe is Virginia Woolf's burlesque of herself as artist, and through her she states the truth about the artist and his unceasing endeavour to make his audience see'.
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