The Lighthouse - Softcover

Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461726327 ISBN 13: 9780461726329

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

The Lighthouse by Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell centers on a manuscript discovered in a lonely lighthouse. The narrator, who finds the old man’s manuscript, uses it to recount a youth spent on a rural English farm. The chapters trace John’s restless imagination and his struggle to reconcile desire for adventure with duty, faith, and contentment. In the farm’s circle he encounters Sophy, Mary Alton, George Weston, and Miss Clarke, and a wise rector who guides his moral education. The book interweaves two embedded love stories—one from the rector’s past and one in John’s own youthful affections—and a series of episodes about friendship, jealousy, and ambition. John’s longing for the sea, his moral missteps, and Sophy’s death catalyze a turning point toward seriousness and piety. The rector’s counsel about perseverance, humility, and heavenly aims ultimately shapes the narrator’s path, delivering a meditation on happiness, duty, and the meaning of a well-ordered life.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461726327
• ISBN 13: 9780461726329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322