Name: To the Lighthouse
SKU: 56256308
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Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781645941866

Type

Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Publisher

Suzeteo Enterprises

Language

English

Pages

188

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.6 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781645941866

Synopsis "To the Lighthouse"

From English writer Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse explores the relationships and inner thoughts of a family on their visits to the Isle of Sky in Scotland. Considered a benchmark of the modernist tradition, the novel makes experimental use of third-person narration and subjective language. Woolf uses the postponement of a family trip to a nearby lighthouse to flush out the characters and the everyday discomforts and joys of existence. The novel explores the themes of time, memory, and the passage of life, as well as the inner conflicts in relationships and families. To the Lighthouse is often ranked as one of the greatest English-language books ever written.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.

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