{"product_id":"paperblanks-the-waves-volume-4-midi-hardback-journal-lined-144-pages-pb7295-9","title":"Paperblanks The Waves (Volume 4) Midi Hardback Journal – Lined, 144 Pages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCapture your ideas, plans and memories in this The Waves (Volume 4) midi hardback journal from Paperblanks, with 144 lined pages of 120 gsm acid-free paper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf rejected traditional plots in favour of explorations of the inner lives of her characters. Her stream of consciousness narratives highlighted gender relations and the poetic perspective. Her experimental 1931 novel \u003cem\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/em\u003e was originally drafted in a series of notebooks, including the one reproduced here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Story Behind the Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA modernist and feminist pioneer, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) carved out new territory for artists, particularly women writers. She wrote with sensitivity and insight about the confusion, mystery and uncertainty of everyday life. Part of her innovation was to reject traditional plots in favour of explorations of the inner lives of her characters. Her stream-of-consciousness narratives brought sharp and fleeting glimpses into truths of gender relations, psychology and the power of the poetic perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoolf’s 1931 novel \u003cem\u003eThe Waves,\u003c\/em\u003e originally drafted in a series of seven notebooks, is among her best and most experimental works. In fact, according to a 2015 poll conducted by the BBC, \u003cem\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/em\u003e was voted as the 16th greatest British novel of all time. Made up primarily of soliloquies spoken by the book’s six main characters, \u003cem\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/em\u003e is interspersed with third-person interludes detailing a day at the coast. Blurring the lines between poetry and prose, \u003cem\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/em\u003e was described as a “playpoem” by Woolf herself, who said the characters were not people at all, but meant to represent different facets of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, the seven notebooks containing Woolf’s drafts of The Waves are a part of The New York Public Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature and are featured in the new Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library Treasures. 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