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| Between the Acts (Penguin Modern Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Virginia Woolf
Creator: Gillian Beer
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 168488
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0141184523
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780141184524
ASIN: 0141184523
Publication Date: August 31, 2000
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 The funny one July 15, 2004
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
Not known for her "gag-a-minute" style (and how the pale, tremblingly sensitive fanclub would hate it if she were...) "Between the Acts" is that rare thing: a Woolf novel that is a pleasure to read. No: I'm not trying to undermine her achievements elsewhere as a feminist, novelist or critic, but if you're looking for a novel that has weight and scope but doesn't KEEP making you aware of how pleased with itself it is, this is a winner.
 A Parting Shot May 10, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Between The Acts was completed just weeks before Woolf's suicide, and it shows. The novel is dark and brooding - throughout there is a dark undercurrent that the villagers refuse to acknowledge - the upcoming war. While perhaps not reaching the same heights as The Waves or To The Lighthouse, it remains a breathtaking work. Out of all her novels that I have read, it is the one in which her radical ideas are set out most firmly. She deals with madness, homosexuality, the class system and of course (as always) the transience and futility of life. In particular, the last monologue of Miss La Trobe is pointed and cutting - a final message from Woolf to the world where she in essence cuts through the illusion and points out the dark, sick heart of "civilisation". Irreverant to the past, plunging headfirst into the future, it is certainly not just for Woolf fanatics. I would certainly rate it amongst her best.
Just another Stream of Consciousness December 3, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
'Between the Acts' is Woolf's last book, said to be, in her own words, 'the most quintessential' of her works. Published posthumously, its characters show many of the classic traits in her previous novels. In many ways, Lucy can be likened to Mrs Ramsay from 'To the Lighthouse' and William Dodge has the untapped intellect and shy arrogance of Mr Tansley. Somehow we see a very different Woolf, one contemplating mortality and the gift of life with nature and the violence of war. Its characters show no signs of realisation of the war which is about to tear them apart and the pageant or play within the novel, rolls on under the guidance of the frustrated artist, Miss La Trobe.
A mysterious and introspective book, perhaps also a little depressing as the reader can, with hindsight, see how prophetic Woolf was being about herself.
A work of mature genius by a great writer October 4, 2000
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This under-appreciated work is slowly gaining the recognition it deserves from Woolf critics... but I would say that, since I wrote my dissertation on it in the U.S.! Woolf's fiction is never light reading, but Woolf lovers will here find a masterful synthesis of descriptive power, her exhaustive knowledge of English history and literature, her feminism, her passionate hatred of war and her conviction that only aesthetic experience can enable humanity to question the status quo and *perhaps* create a better world... interested readers might consider reading it alongside The Years, Three Guineas, Moments of Being, the last volumes of the diary, or such Woolf essays as "Thoughts on Peace During an Air Raid," as well as Shakespeare's Tempest. In addition, Gillian Beer's introduction to this edition is excellent. This slim novel speaks volumes; it is a work of mature genius by one of the 20th century's greatest writers.
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