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The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.

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IT WAS an uncertain spring.

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This is book 6 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels in 1937. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Drums Along the Mohawk, and followed by Theatre.

This is book 611 of 1271 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Hobbit, and followed by In Parenthesis.

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  1. Virginia Woolf (Author)

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  1. Mark Hussey (Editor)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Country: England
Publication Date: 1937
ISBN: N/A
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