Virginia Woolf 
The Years 

This edition takes the first British edition of The Years as
its copy-text, and includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive
explanatory notes, and a full list of textual variants and
editorial emendations.

* Features a comprehensive introduction, detailing the lengthy
process of the composition and revision of the novel, and its
subsequent publication history

* Includes extensive explanatory notes, highlighting the
political, historical, social and literary contexts of the
novel

* Provides a full account of the variants between the first
British and American editions, supplemented by a list of editorial
emendations made in this present edition

Table of Content

Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

Introduction.

TEXT.

Explanatory Notes.

Appendix: Textual Variants and Emendations.

About the author

David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature at
Oxford University and Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English
Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. Among other volumes, he
has edited Woolf’s The Mark on the Wall and Other Short
Fiction, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and
Selected Essays of Virginia Woolf, The Concise
Companion to Modernism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), and A
Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (with
Kevin J. H. Dettmar; Wiley-Blackwell, 2006). His Shakespeare Head
Press edition of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (co
edited with Stuart N. Clarke) is forthcoming.

Ian Blyth is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of
English, University of St Andrews. He is the co-editor of a
forthcoming edition of Woolf’s Orlando and the author
of various articles on Woolf and other subjects.