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Night and Day

by Virginia Woolf

Four young acquaintances in Edwardian London grapple with the quandary of love and marriage.

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First published
1919
Length
166,726 words
Reading time
About 11 hr 35 min
Language
English (UK)

About the book

Although known for her later experiments with style and structure, Virginia Woolf set out in her early novels to master the traditional form. Her second novel, Night and Day , presents itself as a seemingly conventional marriage plot, complete with love triangles, broken engagements, and unrequited affections. Beneath these conventional trappings, however, the book’s deeper concerns are resolutely subversive. The main characters—a quartet of friends and would-be lovers—come together, pull apart, and struggle to reconcile socially prescribed norms of love and marriage with their own beliefs and ambitions.

the Read4Max reading text contains approximately 166,726 words arranged in 36 navigable sections.

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About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is described by Wikidata as English modernist writer (1882–1941), with citizenship or national association recorded as United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Recorded occupations include novelist, essayist, autobiographer, short story writer, diarist, and literary critic. Languages recorded for Virginia Woolf include English. The structured record associates Virginia Woolf with Bloomsbury Group. Wikidata lists To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando: A Biography, A Room of One's Own, The Waves, and The Years among Virginia Woolf's notable works. Open Library identifies To the Lighthouse as a leading work in its author record. Open Library catalogs 2003 works under this author record. The Read4Max catalog currently includes Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, Night and Day, Orlando, The Voyage Out, and To the Lighthouse under Virginia Woolf's authorship.

1882–1941

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Themes and ideas

  • London (England)
  • Young women
  • Love stories
  • Domestic fiction
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
  • Biographers
  • Poets

Table of contents

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  1. Dedication
  2. Night and Day
  3. I
  4. II
  5. III
  6. IV
  7. V
  8. VI
  9. VII
  10. VIII
  11. IX
  12. X
  13. XI
  14. XII
  15. XIII
  16. XIV
  17. XV
  18. XVI
  19. XVII
  20. XVIII
  21. XIX
  22. XX
  23. XXI
  24. XXII
  25. XXIII
  26. XXIV
  27. XXV
  28. XXVI
  29. XXVII
  30. XXVIII
  31. XXIX
  32. XXX
  33. XXXI
  34. XXXII
  35. XXXIII
  36. XXXIV
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