To The Lighthouse
In the fleeting hours of a single summer day, the Ramsay family gathers at their Scottish seaside home, where promises hang suspended like morning mist—will they finally make that longed-for journey to the lighthouse? Virginia Woolf transforms ordinary moments into profound meditations on time, memory, and the fragile threads that bind us to those we love. As consciousness flows between characters like tidal currents, each voice reveals the weight of unspoken desires and the ache of impermanence. Can we ever truly reach the destinations we set for ourselves, or do we discover that the journey itself has already changed us beyond recognition? This luminous novel captures the exquisite tension between what we hope for and what we ultimately become.
- Originally Published: 1927
- Publisher: Vintage, 2004
- Genre: Novel
- Pages: 198
- BookType: Hardcopy(Paperback)
- ISBN: 9780099478294
- Access: Members
Description
Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf’s greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics.
One of Modern Library Top 100 Novels
‘My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again’ Greta Gerwig
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel’s opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bringing with it war and death, and the summer home stands empty until one day, many years later, the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.
One of the great literary achievements of the 20th century, To the Lighthouse, is at once an intensely autobiographical and universally moving masterpiece about changing relationships and attitudes amongst the early 20th-century middle class.
‘To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time’ Margaret Drabble
‘Thrillingly introspective’ The Independent
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