Today In Literary History

On this day in 1931 Virginia Woolf's The Waves was published. She was just forty-nine, and she would live and write for another decade, but this was the last of her major works. Many also say it is the best, and when Leonard Woolf put a memorial plaque in the garden of their home, he chose from among its last lines: 'Death is the enemy. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!' The waves broke on the shore."