Night And Day av Virginia Woolf, Lauren Groff

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<p><b>The 100th Anniversary Edition of Virginia Woolf¿s timely, overlooked second novel¿a remarkable story of two women navigating the possibilities opened up by the struggle for women¿s suffrage¿introduced for Restless Classics by bestselling author of <i>Fates and Furies </i>Lauren Groff and illustrated by graphic artist Kristen Radtke.</b></p><p>Since its publication in 1919, Virginia Woolf¿s second novel has been largely dismissed as ¿traditional¿¿but reading the book more closely today shows us just how prescient and unconventional it was. On its surface, <i>Night and Day</i> plays with the tropes of Shakespearean comedy: We follow the romantic endeavors of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet, as love is confessed and rebuffed, partners switched, weddings planned and cancelled, until we finally arrive at two engagements. But these dramas play out against the first steps of the women¿s suffrage movement, as women¿s roles in society fitfully started to shift away from ch