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  • Published: 21 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593468869
  • Imprint: Random House Diversified
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99

To the Lighthouse

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)





A beautiful edition of the groundbreaking classic novel, with a new introduction by award-winning writer Susan Choi

The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose. Though the novel turns on the death of its central figure, Mrs. Ramsay, 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. Observed across the years at their vacation house on the Isle of Skye, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the passage of time. To the Lighthouse enacts a moving allegory of the creative consciousness and its momentary triumphs over fleeting material life.

  • Published: 21 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593468869
  • Imprint: Random House Diversified
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99

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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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Praise for To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time.” –Margaret Drabble “Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love. If you’re like me you’ll come back to this book often, always astounded, always moved, always refreshed.” –Rick Moody “[Woolf’s] people are astoundingly real…The tragic futility, the absurdity, the pathetic beauty, of life–we experience all of this in our sharing of seven hours of Mrs. Ramsay’s wasted or not wasted existence. We have seen, through her, the world.” –Conrad Aiken

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