Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters'minds as we follow them on a winding,decade-long journey to the lighthouse.Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye,surrounded by family friends. But as time passes,bringing with it war and death,the summer home stands empty until one day,many years later,the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys,from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784875329Number of pages: 256Weight: 181 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language,a book which transcends timeIt is an elegy for lost times and family lifeThrillingly introspectiveA little master piece... a brilliant evocation of consciousness,perception,loss and our relation to time
Virginia Woolf
A titan of twentieth-century literature,a feminist icon and a figurehead of the modernist movement in Britain,Virginia Woolf remains one of the most daringly experimental writers in print. Her works include Mrs Dalloway,To the Lighthouse and Orlando and the pioneering non-fiction collection A Room of One's Own.
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