A powerful indictment of "Victorianism" and its values,'The Years', written in 1937 was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime. 'The Years' ex plores 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. This definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by the author, and a list of textual variants.