To The Lighthouse
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 11th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the wild Scottish coastline of the Isle of Skye, To the Lighthouse chronicles the Ramsay family's visits to their summer home over a decade, anchoring its narrative around the deceptively simple promise of a boat trip to a nearby lighthouse — a journey that becomes freighted with longing, loss, and the inexorable passage of time. At the heart of the novel stands Mrs. Ramsay, a woman of magnetic warmth and quiet authority, whose relationships with her husband, children, and the artist Lily Briscoe form the emotional architecture of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated works of modernist fiction. Virginia Woolf's prose here reaches its most luminous pitch, deploying her signature stream-of-consciousness technique to dissolve the boundary between interior thought and exterior reality, capturing the flickering, fragmentary nature of human perception with extraordinary precision. To the Lighthouse stands as both an elegy for the Edwardian world swept away by the First World War and a meditation on art, memory, and what it means to truly see another person. Woolf argues, through Lily's final brushstroke, that meaning is not found but made — leaving the reader to wonder whether the lighthouse was ever the destination at all.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, The Hogarth Press
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: 11th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the wild Scottish coastline of the Isle of Skye, To the Lighthouse chronicles the Ramsay family's visits to their summer home over a decade, anchoring its narrative around the deceptively simple promise of a boat trip to a nearby lighthouse — a journey that becomes freighted with longing, loss, and the inexorable passage of time. At the heart of the novel stands Mrs. Ramsay, a woman of magnetic warmth and quiet authority, whose relationships with her husband, children, and the artist Lily Briscoe form the emotional architecture of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated works of modernist fiction. Virginia Woolf's prose here reaches its most luminous pitch, deploying her signature stream-of-consciousness technique to dissolve the boundary between interior thought and exterior reality, capturing the flickering, fragmentary nature of human perception with extraordinary precision. To the Lighthouse stands as both an elegy for the Edwardian world swept away by the First World War and a meditation on art, memory, and what it means to truly see another person. Woolf argues, through Lily's final brushstroke, that meaning is not found but made — leaving the reader to wonder whether the lighthouse was ever the destination at all.