To the Lighthouse

by Unknown Author

One of the most innovative authors and distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf examines family dynamics and the tensions between men and women in her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse . A pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device, Woolf explores multiple perspectives of the members of the Ramsay family as they navigate experiences of disappointment and loss. Divided into three sections, the story takes place pre– and post–World War I during visits to the Ramsays’ summer residence on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Classic novel; fiction; modernist; modernism; feminist writers; multiple perspectives; stream of consciousness; narrative device; philosophical introspection; literary technique; Ramsay family; World War I; summer residence; Isle of Skye; Scotland; 100 best; English; 20th century; perception

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Reviews

[Rob Page]

This novel is too dense to put into a short summary. Woolf addresses the chasms that exist between even the closest of loved ones, the imposition of grief and absence, and the depth of feeling left unexpressed through two short glimpses of time with such tenderness, that it’s difficult to imagine she wasn’t weeping the whole way through writing it.

I will read this again one day.