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Title: Night and Day
Author: Virginia Woolf
Narrator: Victoria Bradley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-07-17
Publisher: Audioliterature
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Classics, World Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Set in Edwardian London, "Night and Day" (1919) contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances. The novel deals with issues concerning women's suffrage, if love and marriage can coexist, and if marriage is necessary for happiness. The main characters:
Katharine Hilbery is the granddaughter of a distinguished poet and belongs to a privileged class. Katharine agrees to marry Ralph.
Ralph Denham, a lawyer who occasionally writes articles for a journal edited by Trevor Hilbery, Katharine's father. Ralph is in constant pursuit of Katharine.
Mary Datchet, the daughter of a country vicar, works in the office of an organization that campaigns for the enactment of women's suffrage. She falls wildly in love with Ralph Denham.
William is a frustrated poet and dramatist, who often subjects others to his mediocre works. He is Katharine's first romantic interest.
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Members Reviews:
A well-crafted book
A well-crafted book can linger in my mind long after it is finished, its words, sentences, scenes or characters appearing in random spaces of my life, like the grocery store checkout line or in the car, prompting me to philosophize, laugh, smile, and frown. The novel Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is one such book.
Although there is much in Night and Day to analyze, savor, or dislikeâall equally valid reactions from a good readâone of the most memorable scenes takes place mainly in the consciousness of the family, and more specifically, in Katherineâs consciousness. The catalyst for this scene, which is also the beginning of the book, is a visit from Ralph Denham, a poor man who wants to be rich. To him, Katherine Hilbery and her family have it allâwealth, property, positionâwithout having to work for it. Despite appearances, not all is perfect within Katherineâs family, and not for the typical reasons we see unfolding in a TV drama series. The situation is as follows: Katherineâs grandfather, Richard Alardyce, was a great and important poet; and as with so many other, great, important poet menâWoolf is poking a little fun hereâhis biography must be written. Katherine and her mother have been tasked since birth with the writing of this biography.
Woolf unfolds her narrative carefully, lulling the reader dreamily into the deep mire into which Katherine one day finds herself. At age 27, she and her mother still have no biography to show the world. Nevertheless, Katherineâs view of her mother has been up to this point optimistic and sympathetic, even as she realizes how absurd the task has become for both of them. Her account of watching her mother at work:
"These spells of inspiration never burnt steadily, but flickered over the gigantic mass of the subject as capriciously as a will-oâ-the wisp, lighting now on that point, now on that. It was as much as Katherine could do to keep the pages of her motherâs manuscript in order, but to sort them so that the sixteenth year of Richard Alardyceâs life succeeded the fifteenth was beyond her skill. And yet they were so brilliant, these paragraphs, so nobly phrased, so lightning-like in their illumination, that the dead seemed to crowd the very room. Read continuously, they produced a sort of vertigo, and set her asking herself in despair what on earth she[Katherine] was to do with themâBut the book must be written.
