To the Lighthouse (Vintage Classics)
Author(s): Virginia Woolf. With introductions by Eavan Boland and Maud Ellmann
The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles. One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is often cited as Virginia Woolf's most popular novel.
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With introductions by Eavan Boland and Maud Ellmann 20040624
""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 "From the Hardcover edition."
General Fields
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- : Vintage Publishing
- : Vintage
- : 0.163
- : 01 November 2004
- : 198mm X 129mm X 14mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : 224
- : Jan-13
- : Paperback
- : Virginia Woolf. With introductions by Eavan Boland and Maud Ellmann
