To The Lighthouse

There are very few exceptional and miraculous novels that have the power to change their readers forever. To the Lightho... (more)

There are very few exceptional and miraculous novels that have the power to change their readers forever. To the Lighthouse is one of them. (less)

This is the story of the Ramsays, based on Virginia Woolf's own family. Written in the stream-of-consciousness style, th... (more)

This is the story of the Ramsays, based on Virginia Woolf's own family. Written in the stream-of-consciousness style, the book examines family relationships, the traditional roles of the sexes, the tensions and love between husband and wife and the resentment children can feel for their parents. (less)

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Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work To the Lighthouse, as well as its importance and critical reception. Inc... (more)

Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work To the Lighthouse, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author. (less)

To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on ... (more)

To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. 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.To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. 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. (less)

A vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on gri... (more)

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 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--Container. (less)