A powerful indictment of 'Victorianism' and its value, The Years, written in 1937 was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime. With an introduction by Quentin Bell, this definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by the author, and a list of textual variants. The Years explore a rich variety of themes such as sex, feminism, family life, education and politics in English society from 1800 to the 1930s, as they affect one large middle-class London family, the Pargiters.