Second-hand book, The Waves [Like new]

The Waves, published in 1931, is a work from the peak of 20th-century British novelist Virginia Woolf's creative powers. This highly poetic, abstract, and stylized experimental work has no strict plot; it is more like a musical composition structured in nine movements. Each prelude is an exquisite prose poem, with the ebb and flow of the sun and waves corresponding to the rise and fall of life. Following each prelude are the instantaneous interior monologues of six highly formalized characters without surnames, each at a different stage of their lives—from childhood, student years, youth, middle age, to old age. The preludes and the main text reflect each other, opening up unprecedented and subtle sensory pathways for readers, bringing them as close as possible to the essence of life, time, consciousness, and feeling.
This is a work that holds an important place in the pantheon of modern literature, and to this day, it continues to stir our souls with its exquisite textual structure and poetic tone.

About the Author
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a British writer and feminist. Between the two World Wars, she was a symbol of the London literary scene.
Born in London, Woolf was educated at home. Before her marriage, her name was Adeline Virginia Stephen. In 1895, after her mother's death, she suffered her first mental breakdown. She later revealed in her autobiography, Moments of Being, that she and her sister Vanessa Bell had been sexually abused by their stepbrothers (unrelated by blood) George and Gerald Duckworth. After the death of her father, Sir Leslie Stephen (an editor and literary critic), in 1904, Woolf and Vanessa moved to Bloomsbury.