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Between the Acts

AuthorVirginia Woolf

NarratorEileen Mills

Duration6h

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels, Classics

PublisherInhouse

VersionUnabridged

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Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the novel weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of the Second World War, which provides the novel with its dark undercurrent. Before the book was published in the spring of 1941, Virginia Woolf had taken her own life.

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