To The Lighthouse - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8175993596 ISBN 13: 9788175993594

Publisher: Fingerprint, 2016

Synopsis

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is a landmark of modernist literature, psychological fiction, and stream-of-consciousness writing. Set around the Ramsay family and their guests at a summer home by the sea, the novel turns seemingly ordinary moments into profound reflections on memory, relationships, identity, and the passage of time.

Through shifting perspectives and interior monologue, Woolf moves deeply into the minds of characters such as Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, and Lily Briscoe. Their private thoughts, desires, insecurities, and emotional connections reveal the subtle tensions within family life, friendship, marriage, creativity, and the expectations placed upon individuals.

Rich in time, memory, art, gender, loss, perception, and human consciousness, To the Lighthouse is less concerned with conventional plot than with the ways people experience and remember the world around them. Woolf’s lyrical prose and experimental structure explore how time transforms relationships, how memory preserves what has passed, and how art can become a way of seeking meaning amid impermanence.

Poetic, introspective, and psychologically intricate, To the Lighthouse is ideal for students, classic literature readers, and anyone interested in Virginia Woolf, modernist fiction, feminist literature, literary classics, psychological novels, and experimental narrative. Its exploration of family, creativity, mortality, and the inner life makes it an enduring work of twentieth-century literature.

Why should readers pick this book?

• A Landmark of Modernist Fiction: Experience Virginia Woolf’s innovative use of stream of consciousness, shifting perspectives, and interior thought to reveal the complexity of human experience.
• Deep Psychological & Emotional Insight: Explore memory, family, loss, gender, identity, creativity, and the quiet tensions that shape relationships over time.
• Ideal for Literary Fiction Readers: Perfect for students, Woolf enthusiasts, modernist literature readers, and anyone drawn to poetic prose, philosophical reflection, and character-driven storytelling.

Key Themes

• Time, Memory & Impermanence: Examine how passing time reshapes relationships, perception, grief, and the way people remember significant moments.
• Art, Identity & Creative Purpose: Explore Lily Briscoe’s artistic struggle and the broader questions of perception, expression, and the search for meaning through creation.
• Family, Gender & Inner Life: Reflect on marriage, parental roles, social expectations, intimacy, and the private emotional worlds that exist beneath everyday interactions.

About this title

About the Author

Born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in Kensington, London, in 1882, Virginia Woolf was the daughter of the eminent critic and founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth Stephen. Raised by her parents in their literate and well-connected household, she was influenced by the Victorian literary society and the prominent British intellectuals of her time including Henry James, George Henry Lewes, and James Russell Lowell. Virginia began writing in her teens. Her reviews were published anonymously in the Times Literary Supplement and other journals. The Voyage Out, originally titled Melymbrosia, was her first novel published in 1915 by Duckworth. She developed her art and went on to publish a number of novels including Night and Day (1919), Jacob’s Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), The Waves (1931), and The Years (1937).A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938) are among her famous non-fiction books. She drowned herself on March 28, 1941, by walking into the River Ouse with her overcoat pockets filled with stones. Her body was found on April 18, 1941. Virginia Woolf’s works have been translated into more than fifty languages. She continues to remain one of the significant writers of the twentieth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fingerprint
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8175993596
• ISBN 13: 9788175993594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220