The Years (Annotated)

Virginia Woolf's The Years (1937) follows the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day," tracing private lives against the slow transformations of English society. More spacious and outwardly realist than Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse, it nevertheless bears Woolf's modernist signature: shifting perspectives, charged silences, and an acute sensitivity to time, memory, weather, rooms, ...