To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf, Stella McNichol, Hermione Lee

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Penguin
04 June 2019

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics

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. The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.

By: Virginia Woolf
Introduction and notes by: Hermione Lee
Edited by: Stella McNichol
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 236g
ISBN: 9780241371954
ISBN 10: 0241371953
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 June 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.