To the Lighthouse (Collins Classics)
By (Author) Virginia Woolf
HarperCollins Publishers
William Collins
17th September 2013
12th September 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Autobiography: writers
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary theory
Literary studies: postcolonial literature
Literary studies: from c 2000
823.912
Paperback
240
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 18mm
130g
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Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolfs own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novels disparate cast.
A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolfs novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten.
Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of Ones Own.