The Years

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The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf that traces the changing fortunes of the Pargiter family across several decades, blending social history with experimental narrative form.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
author Virginia Woolf NERFINISHED
basedOn earlier project The Pargiters
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts English middle-class life
changes in British society
firstEditionFormat print
followedBy Between the Acts NERFINISHED
follows The Waves NERFINISHED
genre family saga
modernist novel
social novel
hasForm experimental narrative
fragmented chronology
hasLaterReception renewed critical interest in feminist and historicist criticism
hasReception commercial success on publication
mixed critical response at first
hasSubject Pargiter family NERFINISHED
literaryMovement modernism
mainCharacter Delia Pargiter NERFINISHED
Edward Pargiter NERFINISHED
Eleanor Pargiter NERFINISHED
Kitty Malone NERFINISHED
Martin Pargiter NERFINISHED
Milly Pargiter NERFINISHED
Peggy Pargiter NERFINISHED
Rose Pargiter NERFINISHED
Sara Pargiter NERFINISHED
narrativeForm multiple third-person perspectives
notableFor blend of social history and modernist technique
focus on women’s lives
originalLanguage English
partOf Virginia Woolf bibliography NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1937
publisher Hogarth Press NERFINISHED
setInLocation London NERFINISHED
setInPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
structure divided into sections by specific years
theme class and society
everyday life
family relationships
gender roles
memory
passage of time
social change

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The Waves precededBy The Years
The Waves followedBy The Years
Three Guineas precededBy The Years