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  • Published: 4 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241371954
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $17.99

To the Lighthouse

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)





Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. 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. The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.

  • Published: 4 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241371954
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $17.99

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About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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