To the Lighthouse: Introduction by Julia Briggs (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) - Hardcover

Woolf, Virginia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679405372 ISBN 13: 9780679405375

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1992

Synopsis

 

Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, To the Lighthouse is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universality.

 

Observed across the years at their vacation house facing the gales of the North Atlantic, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the passage of time. Though it is the death of Mrs. Ramsay on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory that is also a celebration of domestic life and its most intimate details. Virginia Woolf’s great book enacts a powerful allegory of the creative consciousness and its momentary triumphs over fleeting material life.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles, in what is probably her most popular novel.

From the Back Cover:

Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, 'To The Lighthouse' is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679405372
• ISBN 13: 9780679405375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280