Is love essential to a happy marriage? Is marriage essential to a satisfying life? Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second published novel, follows four Londoners-Katharine Hillbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney-through a period of their intertwined lives as they grapple with questions of love, happiness, and marriage.
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Is love essential to a happy marriage? Is marriage essential to a satisfying life? Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second published novel, follows four Londoners-Katharine Hillbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney-through a period of their intertwined lives as they grapple with questions of love, happiness, and marriage.
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Add this copy of Night and Day to cart. $16.31, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Portmay Press.
I found Viriginia Woolf's second published novel(after the entertaining The Voyage Out) extremely tedious. None of the characters are particularly likeable, except for Mary, a suffragist who doesn't appear often enough. There is a modicum of humor-the current plot problems of Desperate Housewives comes to mind with "Yes, we're engaged, No we're not" complications that get old pretty quickly. Virginia Woolf wrote certifiable classics, but the general reader can skip this one and enjoy Mrs. Dalloway all the more.
