num_pages: 238
description: 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.
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: 174676
places: Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland
awards: awardedAt: -1325433600000
name: Prix Femina - Vie Heureuse
publisher: Everyman's Library