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Between the Acts
Between the Acts
Author: Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it looks forward ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781604444292
ISBN-10: 1604444290
Publication Date: 2/14/2011
Pages: 136
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Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
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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