![]() ![]() ![]() The Years defies plot summary and includes nothing that could be termed a continuous storyline or a central protagonist. Each section covers a single day with the exception of the first, which includes events on at least three days. Sections open and are occasionally interrupted by passages of what could be termed panoramic narration that describes seasons, weather, celestial bodies, and the day to day movements of people and things before the its scope tightens to inhabit the consciousness of particular characters. ![]() (While not the single volume tour de force that Woolf first envisioned, she would later write that the two works really constituted “one book.”) The Years consists of two long sections entitled “1880” and “Present Day” (approx. Over the previous six years, Woolf had undertaken a massive project combining fiction and social critique that eventually produced both The Years and the polemical essays of Three Guineas. Published in 1937, The Years was the last of Virginia Woolf’s novels to appear in print during her lifetime. ![]()
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