num_pages: 268
description: For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged.To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.Virginia Woolf saw the novel as an elegy to her own parents, and in her diary she wrote: 'I used to think of him (father) and mother daily; but writing The Lighthouse laid them in my mind'.
language: English
title: To the Lighthouse
titlecomplete: To the Lighthouse
characters: Prue Ramsay, William Bankes, Minta Doyle, Mrs. McNab, Mr. Ramsay, Jasper Ramsay, Roger Ramsay, Rose Ramsay, Andrew Ramsay, Cam Ramsay, Augustus Carmichael, Mrs. Ramsay, James Ramsay, Charles Tansley, Nancy Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, Paul Rayley
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, British Literature, School, Modern Classics, Literary Fiction, Feminism, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 174695
places: Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland
awards: awardedAt: -1325433600000
name: Prix Femina - Vie Heureuse
publisher: Penguin Classic