More about the book
Among the greatest literary achievements of this century is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's fifth novel. It was greeted with a chorus of praise, was the first to win her a large public, and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island, overlooked by a distant lighthouse, where an English family and assorted guests are enjoying the long summer. Mrs. Ramsay is beautiful, dominant, generous. Her power is gentle but irresistible. All of them - her eccentric and demanding husband, her flock of children, the lovers, the crusty old writer, the independent woman painter, the awkward young academic - are drawn into her sphere of influence. She flatters vanities, builds friendships, protects her own. Her husband's passion is for abstract truth; hers is for reality, in particular the reality of love, married life and family. But the summer ends. War and death bring changes. The next journey to the lighthouse is a very different one.
Language
Publication
- 2025
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017
- 2017
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2004
- 1991
Book purchase
To the lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- Language
- Released
- 1984
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- To the lighthouse
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Virginia Woolf
- Publisher
- Granada
- Released
- 1984
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0586044507
- ISBN13
- 9780586044506
- Series
- Collection
- Panther Books (Granada)
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Classics, Family, Friendship, Relationships, 20th century, Death, England, Literary Fiction, English Literature, Novellas, Scotland, Seas and Oceans, Transformation, Autobiographical Novels, Beauty, Lighthouses, Stream of Consciousness
- First published
- 1927
- Original title
- To the Lighthouse
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Among the greatest literary achievements of this century is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's fifth novel. It was greeted with a chorus of praise, was the first to win her a large public, and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island, overlooked by a distant lighthouse, where an English family and assorted guests are enjoying the long summer. Mrs. Ramsay is beautiful, dominant, generous. Her power is gentle but irresistible. All of them - her eccentric and demanding husband, her flock of children, the lovers, the crusty old writer, the independent woman painter, the awkward young academic - are drawn into her sphere of influence. She flatters vanities, builds friendships, protects her own. Her husband's passion is for abstract truth; hers is for reality, in particular the reality of love, married life and family. But the summer ends. War and death bring changes. The next journey to the lighthouse is a very different one.