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Among other volumes he has edited The Hidden Huxley, Waugh’s Decline and Fall, Ford’s The Good Soldier, Huxley’s Brave New World, and the Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster, as well as Oxford World’s Classics editions of Lawrence ’s Women in Love and Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction, and Selected Essays. In addition he has edited A Concise Companion to Modernism (Blackwell, 2003) and, with Kevin J. H. Dettmar, A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Blackwell, 2006) . He is co-editor, with Rachel Potter, of Prudes on the Prowl: Fiction and Obscenity in England, 1850 to the Present Day (Oxford, 2013), and co-editor, with Laura Marcus and Rebecca Roach, of Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology and Modernity (Oxford, 2015) .  \nOXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS  \nFor over 100years Oxford Worlds’ Classics have brought readers closer to the worlds’ great literature. Now with over 700 titles—from the 4, 000-year-old myths ofMesopotamia to the twentieth century s’ greatest novels—the series makes available lesser-known as well as celebrated  \nwriting.  \nThe pocket-sized hardbacks ofthe early years contained introductions by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, and other literaryfigures which enriched the experience of reading. Today the series is recognized for its fine scholarship and reliability in texts that span world literature, drama andpoetry, religion, philosophy, andpolitics. Each edition includes perceptive commentary and essential background information to meet the changing needs ofreaders.  \nOXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS  \nVIRGINIA WOOLF  \nThe Waves  \nEdited with an Introduction and Notes by DAVID BRADSHAW  \nGreat Clarendon Street, Oxford, ox2 6dp ,  \nUnited Kingdom  \nOxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.  \nIt furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered  \ntrade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \nBiographical Preface © Frank Kermode 1992  \nEditorial Material © David Bradshaw 2015  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted  \nFirst published as a World’s Classics paperback 1992  \nReissued as an Oxford World’s Classics paperback 1998, 2008  \nNew edition 2015  \nImpression: 1  \nAll rights reserved. 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Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the  \nmaterials contained in any third party website referenced in this work.  \nCONTENTS  \nBiographical Preface Introduction  \nNote on the Text Select Bibliography  \nA Chronology of Virginia Woolf THE WAVES  \nExplanatory Notes  \nBIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE  \nVIRGINIA WOOLF was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882 at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. 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