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To the Lighthouse

byVirginia Woolf

Who is this book for? Readers interested in modernist literature and character-driven narratives.

Topics FamilyGriefIdentityChange and Transformation
MoodMelancholic, Reflective
Female protagonist
RomanceMinor Subplot
'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening' 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. With a psychologically introspective mode, the use of memory, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives 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 Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Language

en

Published on

24/07/2018

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780241341681

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