Virginia Woolf: The Years

In April 1937, the New York Times trumpeted:


Virginia Woolf's Richest Novel

In “The Years” Her Art Reaches Its

Fullest Development to Date


The Years is the finest novel Virginia Woolf has ever written.


—David Garnett, New Statesman & Nation



The Years is inspired throughout — a brilliant fantasia of all time's problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion.” 


—London Times Literary Supplement



Lovely as The Waves was, The Years goes far behind and beyond it, giving its characters a local habitation and a name, and expressing Mrs. Woolf's purpose in the novel more richly than it has ever been done before.


—New York Times Book Review