![]() ![]() ![]() We also break from the action of the book to watch the play with the rest of the audience, stopping for a tea break and a brief rain storm. In true VW fashion, we move in and out of all the character's heads through the course of the book. Manresa flirts with Giles and Isa gets jealous, but also can't get the thought of a local gentleman farmer out of her head. Mansresa and her friend, an artist, William Dodge. Before the pageant, two unexpected guests turn up for lunch - the flirtatious and unconventional Mrs. Oliver's son, Giles, and Giles' wife Isa and their young son. The household consists of the elderly Bartholomew Oliver and his sister Lucy Swithin, Mr. She gives us the story of a family living on a country estate in England and hosting the annual local pageant - a play put on by the people in the community to raise money for the church. This was Virginia Woolf's last book - finished but not completely edited before she ended her life in March 1941, and published by her husband shortly after her death. Down it poured like all the people in the world weeping. There it was, black, swollen, on top of them. ![]() Unable to lift her hand, she stood facing the audience.Īnd then the shower fell, sudden, profuse. This is death, death, death, she noted in the margin of her mind when illusion fails. Grating her fingers in the bark, she damned the audience. ![]()
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