To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series): Virginia Woolf - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784870838 ISBN 13: 9781784870836

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2016

Synopsis

Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics.

'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

About this title

About the Author

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

From the Back Cover

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, when the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.

One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is at once an intensely autobiographical and universally moving masterpiece.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784870838
• ISBN 13: 9781784870836
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256