On completing it, she thought she hadexorcised the ghosts of her imposing parents, but she had also brought form to abook every bit as vivid and intense as the work of Lily Briscoe, the indomitableartist at the centre of the novel.
"To the Lighthouse features the serene and maternal Mrs.
An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a 10 year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time.
The novel recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships. One of the book's several themes is the ubiquity of transience.
The trick to Estevan Point's strength and durability lay in the use of Colonel William P. Anderson's famed flying buttresses. Anderson was an engineer and head of the Canadian Lighthouse Board and had developed the detached, ...
Inspired by her childhood summers in Cornwall, the author produced one of the masterworks of English literature.
Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, give the novel an intimate, poetic essence.
"To the Lighthouse features the serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests who are on holiday on the Isle of...
Described by Virginia Woolf herself as ‘easily the best of my books’, and by her husband Leonard as a ‘masterpiece’, To the Lighthouse, first published in 1927, is one of...
Divided into three parts, the story takes place pre– and post–World War I during visits to the Ramsays’ summer residence on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century and the author's most popular novel.
'To the Lighthouse' is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public.
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Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own, with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
The author surveys criticism of the novel and argues that a preoccupation with notions of modernism has obscured other aspects of the work. In this book the emphasis is on...
The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book's many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art and the problem of perception.
A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration.
Set in the summer home of an English family, the novel unfolds through shifting perspectives of each character's stream of consciousness, recalling childhood emotions and highlights of adult relationships.
This new edition includes a full contextualizing introduction and notes by David Bradshaw.
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory.