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1) The years
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Language
English
Description
Novel traces the history of a family, opening in 1880 as the children of Colonel and Mrs Pargiter, living together in a large Victorian London house wait for their mother's death and the freedom it will bring.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the death of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance-infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life-Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally...
3) Flush
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Series
Language
English
Description
The famous literary romance of Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning given a funny and poignant slant - being told from the viewpoint of Elizabeth's adored spaniel, Flush, who bore his mistress's virtual imprisonment as an invalid in her father's house, and shared her dramatic flight abroad and subsequent happy married life.
Flush belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and followed its mistress from her confinement in her father's house in Wimpole...