A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf\'s To the Lighthouse explores thesubjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides for the Ramsay family.
A moving portrait in miniature of family life, To the Lighthouse also has profoundly universal implications, giving language to the silent space that separates people and the space that they transgress to reach each other..
But as time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and together, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph--the human capacity for change.
With the Lighthouse excursion postponed, Woolf shows the small joys and quiet tragedies of everyday life that seemingly could go on forever.
Ramsay, their eight children, and assorted holiday guests.
Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr.
There\'s the serene and maternal Mrs.
To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of the Ramsay family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland.
From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and conflict between men and women. -- Greta Gerwig The authorized, original edition of one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century: a miraculous novel of family, love, war, and mortality, with a foreword from Eudora Welty.
My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again.
A classic for a reason.
A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf\'s To the Lighthouse explores thesubjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides for the Ramsay family
