num_pages: 306
description: The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.
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: 174768
places: Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland
awards: awardedAt: -1325433600000
name: Prix Femina - Vie Heureuse
publisher: Penguin Books