I kind of think they could go a better cover than this. Mine at least has a painting of the ocean with waves. I bought The Waves in Ecuador in 1997 for 47,000 Sucres. Now they have the dollar, no more Sucres in Ecuador. I think I'm going to have to read it closer between readings to get a sense of the 6 voices, the 7 characters, but maybe the Wikipedia info will help me. According to the BBC in 2015, it is #16 in the greatest British novels list. I have only read 35 of the 100, so I can't really quibble about the list, though there are some things on there that I don't think they should be. Middlemarch is #1 . I'm rereading it because I wasn't liking Childhood's End . Maybe it gets better. So Wikipedia has ideas about who all the voices are in The Waves : Bernard is a story-teller, always seeking some elusive and apt phrase. Some critics see Woolf's friend E. M. Forster as an inspiration for him. Louis is an outsider who seeks acceptance and success. So...