Books: Mrs. Woolf's Way

Mrs. Woolf s Way

The Story* is divided into three parts. The first, situated like the other two in the Hebrides home of English family Ramsay, includes the hours of a summer day from mid-afternoon to bedtime. In it is regarded with an astute and penetrating scrutiny the character of Mrs. Ramsay as reflected in her children, guests, husband.

In the second part, time passes. "The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it....

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