Her efforts to revise, rewrite and edit what would become her longest work led her to compare it to "a long childbirth." On publication, audiences and critics responded eagerly, making her truly wealthy for the first time in her life. Virginia Woolf struggled for years with this novel, hoping to incorporate into a fictional form deep and meaningful commentary on the English middle class.
An exceptionally important association copy. Inscribed copies of The Years are rare, and this, sent to such a close friend, is a particularly remarkable find. The Years was by far her most commercially successful novel and received favorable reviews and The Observer, to her great relief. It’s erratic, but always springs from a direct feeling’, and she maintained a close relationship with him throughout her life. In 1919 she wrote, in a way that I can’t defend to Leonard, I do respect Clive’s judgement. Association copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper to Clive Bell, “Clive from Virginia.” Virginia must have inscribed this copy with some trepidation, having agonized for several years over the text of the novel (‘I wonder if anyone has ever suffered so much from a book as I have from The Years’ (Diary 5:31), and retaining, sometimes against her better judgement, a need to justify herself and her work to Bell, a friend (and brother-in-law) for thirty years by the time of the publication of The Years.
$50,000.00 Item Number: 134540įirst edition of the most successful of Woolf’s later novels, often viewed as her masterpiece.
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