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To the Lighthouse

By Virginia Woolf
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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To the Lighthouse follows the Ramsay family and their guests during summer stays on the Isle of Skye before and after the First World War. As children play and adults engage in painting, conversation, and reflection, their relationships transform amid a backdrop of changing times. Combining elegy, autobiography, and socio-political insight, the novel offers a vivid and intense exploration of memory, art, and family dynamics.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel is suited to readers of literary fiction who appreciate modernist narrative styles and profound psychological character studies. Fans of British classics and those interested in early 20th-century social and artistic themes will find it compelling.

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A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, To the Lighthouse is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels. This new edition includes a full contextualizing introduction and notes by David Bradshaw.

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I am making up To the Lighthouse - the sea is to be heard all through it

Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and their summer guests on the Isle of Skye before and after the First World War. As children play and adults paint, talk, muse and explore, relationships shift and mutate. A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, it is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels.

On completing it, she thought she had exorcised the ghosts of her imposing parents, but she had also brought form to a book every bit as vivid and intense as the work of Lily Briscoe, the indomitable artist at the centre of the novel.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780199536610

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 June 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Contributors:

  • Edited by David Bradshaw
  • Edited by David Bradshaw
  • Edited by David Bradshaw

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 190g

Pages: 272

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics Virginia Woolf

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Edited by David Bradshaw , Professor of English, Worcester College, Oxford.

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