num_pages: 2
description: To The Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's most accomplished novel, and her most autobiographical. It tells of one summer spent by the Ramsay family and their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse, remote, inaccessible, and external presence in a changing world. A projected visit to the lighthouse forms the heart of this extraordinary novel which, through the minds of the various characters, explores the nature of time, memory, transience and eternity. The style has the clarity of a diamond which shimmers in the mind, making To The Lighthouse one of the most unforgettable novels of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: To the Lighthouse
titlecomplete: To the Lighthouse
characters: Andrew Ramsay, Roger Ramsay, Rose Ramsay, Augustus Carmichael, Prue Ramsay, Nancy Ramsay, Cam Ramsay, Charles Tansley, Jasper Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, Mrs. Ramsay, Paul Rayley, Mrs. McNab, James Ramsay, William Bankes, Lily Briscoe, Minta Doyle
genres: Fiction, British Literature, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, Feminism, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 174738
places: Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland
awards: awardedAt: -1325433600000
name: Prix Femina - Vie Heureuse
publisher: Naxos Audio Books