Its title follows the same format as that followed by Jane Austen for Love and Freindship (sic., 1790), Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813), suggesting a continuity with the courtship plots and preoccupations of those novels.

Moore and other Cambridge philosophers within Old Bloomsbury – and, fidgeting within the confines of its seemingly traditional structure, a reader may also spot the first signs of the formal innovations for which Woolf later became famous. Yet the novel is filled, too, with philosophical musings that can be traced to the presence of G. It is certainly a cause of great personal sadness that a film adaptation was never made with a young, Notting Hill era Hugh Grant in the role of Ralph Denham.

With its two central couples, its confusions of identity and its ensemble of amusing side-characters, it has all the key components of a romantic comedy. Heck, I'm grateful to everyone who visited the site.Of Virginia Woolf’s nine novels, it is Night and Day (1919) that is perhaps the least commonly read and the most difficult to summarise. I am also grateful to everyone who has contributed to this website. Thanks to Vijay Fafat for writing the summary of that work (and so many others). The 1,500th entry is The Man of Forty Crowns by Voltaire. PLEASE HELP US OUT BY ENTERING YOUR OWN RATINGS FOR THIS WORK.Įxciting News: The total number of works of mathematical fiction listed in this database recently reached a milestone. Own votes on its mathematical content and literary quality or send Mathematical fiction? Then click here to enter your The Chair of Philanthromathematics by O.36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein.Geometry in the South Pacific by Sylvia Warner.Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw Royal Highness (Königliche Hoheit) by Thomas Mann.

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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf