To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, give the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.
The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of one family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland.
'To the Lighthouse' is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public.
To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century and the author's most popular novel.
"To the Lighthouse features the serene and maternal Mrs.
"To the Lighthouse" is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf and it is considered one of her best. In 1998, the Modern Library named "To the Lighthouse" No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
This new edition includes a full contextualizing introduction and notes by David Bradshaw.
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Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heads to Germany for a restorative walking holiday.
Isaac arrives on Rottnest Island hoping for an awesome holiday adventure, but his mum would rather he stayed inside, where it's safe.
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