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Virginia Woolf offers a touching and introspective look at Edwardian life and love in her 1919 novel Night and Day. Young Katherine Hilbery seems destined for a life of luxury and renown. As the novel opens, Katherine’s mother is busily preparing to write a biography of Katherine’s illustrious grandfather, a well-respected and successful poet. The entire family is eagerly awaiting Katherine’s own debut as a writer, sure that she must have inherited the talent and inclinations of her famous ancestor. Katherine, however, is caught in her own dilemma about the future—she must decide whether to break with tradition and defy her family’s expectations by marrying Ralph Denham, a middle-class lawyer. As a working man with no artistic talent, Ralph would be a scandalous choice of a husband in the Hilbery family’s eyes. The witty, charming, and ultimately eye-opening story that unfolds about Katherine’s dilemma illuminates timeless questions of love, tradition, marriage, and freedom. Night and Day is a must-read for those familiar with and new to Woolf.
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It was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouring out tea. Perhaps a fifth part of her mind was thus occupied, and the remaining parts leapt over the little barrier of day which interposed between Monday morning and this ...
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| lizkies |  | 2008-09-23 |
Night and Day
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