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To the Lighthouse

Introduction by Julia Briggs

By Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Susan Choi

By Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Susan Choi

By Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Julia Briggs

By Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Julia Briggs

By Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Susan Choi

By Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Susan Choi

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Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

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Jan 03, 2023 | ISBN 9780593468869

Hardcover $24.00

Nov 03, 1992 | ISBN 9780679405375

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    About To the Lighthouse

    A beautiful edition of the groundbreaking classic novel, with a new introduction by award-winning writer Susan Choi

    “Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love.” –Rick Moody, bestselling author of The Ice Storm

    The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose. Though the novel turns on the death of its central figure, Mrs. Ramsay, 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. Observed across the years at their vacation house on the Isle of Skye, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the passage of time. To the Lighthouse enacts a moving allegory of the creative consciousness and its momentary triumphs over fleeting material life.

    About To the Lighthouse

    A beautiful hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel.

    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 To the Lighthouse

    A beautiful hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel.

    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.

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    About Virginia Woolf

    VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One’s Own, and… More about Virginia Woolf

    About Virginia Woolf

    VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One’s Own, and… More about Virginia Woolf

    About Virginia Woolf

    VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One’s Own, and… More about Virginia Woolf

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 03, 2023 | 224 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593468869

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Hardcover | $24.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Nov 03, 1992 | 280 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679405375

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 03, 2023 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780593468876
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    Praise

    “I reread this book every once in a while, and every time I do I find it more capacious and startling. It’s so revolutionary and so exquisitely wrought that it keeps evolving on its own somehow, as if it’s alive.” —Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

    “A classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again.” —Greta Gerwig, director of Lady Bird and Little Women

    “To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time.” —Margaret Drabble, author of The Witch of Exmoor

    “[Woolf’s] people are astoundingly real…The tragic futility, the absurdity, the pathetic beauty, of life–we experience all of this in our sharing of seven hours of Mrs. Ramsay’s wasted or not wasted existence. We have seen, through her, the world.” —Conrad Aiken, author of The Conversation

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