The Waves

Dust jacket of the Waves with green and purple illustration by Vanessa Bell

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Vanessa Bell, dust jacket of "The Waves"

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The Waves

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1931

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The Hogarth Press

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First American Edition of The Waves

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This novel, Woolf's fifth, is among her most experimental: it comprises six soliloquies spoken by narrators whom Woolf follows from childhood to adulthood interspersed with third-person descriptions of a coastal scene.