To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The lighthouse waits across the bay.

Between the promise and the journey lies the whole fragile life of a family.

Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The house is full of conversation, expectation, private irritation and small acts of tenderness. Yet the promised trip to the lighthouse does not take place.

Time passes, bringing war and death, and the summer home stands empty. Years later, the family return, altered by loss, to make the long-postponed visit.

This is Woolf at her most luminous and exacting, transforming domestic life into something vast. The novel’s power lies in the spaces between people: what they say, what they cannot say and what time allows them to understand too late.

VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind.

To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time -- Margaret Drabble
It is an elegy for lost times and family life * The Week *
Thrillingly introspective -- Katy Guest * The Independent *
A little master piece.. a brilliant evocation of consciousness, perception, loss and our relation to time -- Helen Edmundson * Week *

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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ISBN 13	9781784875329
ISBN 10	1784875325
Title	To The Lighthouse
Author	Virginia Woolf
Series	Vintage Voyages
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2019-06-06
Number of pages	256
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