A character in this novel observes that "Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me," as she peers off a high cliff in Spain, off which, it is later implied, she leaps to commit suicide.
In this novel, a character's boyhood visions of women carrying pitchers to the Nile are punctuated by progressively longer excerpts from the folk song "O western wind, when wilt thou blow?" A character in this novel observes that "Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me," as she peers off a high cliff in Spain, off which, it is later implied, she leaps to commit suicide. In adjacent sections, this novel describes a dinner party given in honor of a character departing to take a government post in (*) India, and that character's death there from being thrown from a horse. This novel consists of nine italicized passages describing the interplay of sun, sky, and surf at different times of day, separating stream-of-consciousness soliloquies about Percival, delivered by his friends Susan, Louis, Jinny, Bernard, Rhoda, and Neville. For 10 points, name this most experimental novel by Virginia Woolf.
In this novel, a character's boyhood visions of women carrying pitchers to the Nile are punctuated by progressively longer excerpts from the folk song "O western wind, when wilt thou blow?
The Waves