The Waves (Wisehouse Classics Edition)

<p><strong><em>The Waves</em></strong> is a 1931 novel by <em>Virginia Woolf</em>. It is considered her most experimental work and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book’s six characters: <em>Bernard Susan Rhoda Neville Jinny and Louis.</em> Also important is <em>Percival</em> the seventh character though readers never hear him speak in his own voice. The soliloquies that span the characters’ lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset.</p><p>As the six characters or “voices” speak <em>Woolf</em> explores concepts of individuality self and community. Each character is distinct yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness.</p>