To the lighthouse
Title:
To the lighthouse
Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
ISBN:
9780007934416
Publication Information:
London : Harper Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
xv, 222 p. ; 18 cm
Series:
Collins classics
Collins classics.
Series Title:
Collins classics
Collins classics.
Abstract:
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.
Geographic Term:
Subject:
| English -- Scotland -- Fiction. |
| Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction. |
| Mothers -- Death -- Fiction. |
| Summer resorts -- Fiction. |
| Married people -- Fiction. |
| Lighthouses -- Fiction. |
| Widowers -- Fiction. |
| Skye, Island of (Scotland) -- Fiction. |
Summary:
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.