To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

• 01 januari 2012
• 9781622400089

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To the Lighthouse is Woolf's landmark novel of high modernism. Centered around the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, focusing on the internal lives of the characters. Full of winding thoughts and observations the novel deals with the problems we have perceiving others. Although the novel is challenging to read because it is so unique, it has been critically acclaimed. ~15th on Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.~One of TIME magazine's best English-language novels from 1923 to presentAdeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Look for more of Woolf's works from Green Light. Expertly formatted with a linked table of contents. Visit us at - GreenLighteBooks.tumblr.com@GreenLightbooks and facebook.com/greenlightbooks