To the Lighthouse.0000000000To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia Woolf's finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate occasions ten years apart. The setting is Mr and Mrs Ramsay's house on a Scottish island, where they traditionally take their summer holidays, overlooking a bay with a lighthouse. As a modernist author Woolf explored the ways in which fiction could represent reality, and To the Lighthouse can be seen as an experimental work that pushes the limits of what we know about the world and ourselves. It is one of the most beautifully crafted of all novels written in the English language.With an Afterword by Sam Gilpin. |
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Wonderful story. I love to read it. Virginia Woolf proved herself as a splendid novelist. And love quote "What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one."
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Been "reading" this for a couple of months, but it's a heady brew. The prose sings, but it's hard work being in these people's minds, and I keep putting it down and starting something else. I'll try and finish it before long.
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| Title | To the Lighthouse Issue 40 of Collector's Library |
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| Publisher | Collector's Library, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1904633498, 9781904633495 |
| Length | 248 pages |
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