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To the Lighthouse

By Virginia Woolf
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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is a modernist exploration of the complexities of family life, relationships, and the passage of time. Set over the span of a decade, it focuses on the Ramsay family and their summer visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland, contemplating themes of memory, perception, and the search for meaning. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness narrative allows readers to delve into the inner thoughts of various characters, thus offering a profound insight into their emotional landscapes.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate beautifully crafted prose that delves into the complexities of family dynamics and explores themes of time and impermanence. This novel intricately weaves the inner thoughts and perceptions of its characters, offering a profound meditation on the human experience.

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To the Lighthouse

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To the Lighthouse is Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics.

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now, the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged.

The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence, and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence. At the time of publication in 1927, it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is widely praised for its innovative narrative technique and deep exploration of its characters' internal thoughts and emotions. Reviewers often highlight Woolf's ability to capture the fluidity of human perception and the passage of time with her lyrical prose. Many readers appreciate the novel's meditative quality and its profound reflections on the nature of art, family, and the complexities of human relationships.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241371954

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 April 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Hermione Lee
  • Edited by Stella McNichol
  • Notes by Hermione Lee
  • Introduction by Hermione Lee
  • Edited by Stella McNichol

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 237g

Pages: 320

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Virginia Woolf

About the Author

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

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