The Waves - Oxford World's Classics by Virginia Woolf

Regarded by many as Woolf's greatest achievement, The Waves follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age. As the contours of their lives are revealed, a unique novel is unveiled. In this new edition David Bradshaw considers its spellbinding oddness and originality, helping the reader through this most poetic and haunting of novels.

• A new edition of Woolf's novel, regarded by many as her greatest achievement.
• Edited by David Bradshaw, a distinguished Woolf scholar and editor of acclaimed editions of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Mark on the Wall and Other Stories, and Woolf's Selected Essays.
• Draws on the latest scholarship for the introduction and notes, which help to orient the reader through the novel's complexity.
• Up-to-date bibliography.
• Full and helpful chronology.
• Biographical preface by Frank Kermode.

New to this edition

• Introduction by David Bradshaw.
• Revised and updated Select Bibliography.
• Fuller chronology.
• New and expanded notes.
• Re-set text for improved appearance.