To the lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-19412013
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'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel's disparate cast. A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
Main title:
To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf.
Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2013.
Collation:
xv, 222 pages ; 18 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780007934416 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.912F
Local class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2675979
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