To The Lighthouse
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse lies the Ramsay family and their guests, gathered at their summer home on the Isle of Skye, all orbiting the unfulfilled promise of a simple boat trip to the nearby lighthouse — a journey that becomes a profound meditation on time, longing, and the elusiveness of human connection. First published in 1927, this masterwork of literary modernism chronicles a decade in the lives of its characters across three luminous, asymmetrical sections, tracing the quiet devastation wrought by the passage of time and the shadow of World War I against the rhythms of domestic life. Woolf's prose is a triumph of the stream-of-consciousness technique, immersing the reader in the unspoken interior worlds of her characters with an intimacy and precision that remains unparalleled in twentieth-century literature. The novel argues, with breathtaking subtlety, that the most significant human experiences — grief, beauty, artistic vision, and love — resist language and yet demand it. Mrs. Ramsay, the novel's magnetic and elusive center, haunts every page long after her presence has faded, leaving the reader to wonder: what does it truly mean to reach the other side?
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse lies the Ramsay family and their guests, gathered at their summer home on the Isle of Skye, all orbiting the unfulfilled promise of a simple boat trip to the nearby lighthouse — a journey that becomes a profound meditation on time, longing, and the elusiveness of human connection. First published in 1927, this masterwork of literary modernism chronicles a decade in the lives of its characters across three luminous, asymmetrical sections, tracing the quiet devastation wrought by the passage of time and the shadow of World War I against the rhythms of domestic life. Woolf's prose is a triumph of the stream-of-consciousness technique, immersing the reader in the unspoken interior worlds of her characters with an intimacy and precision that remains unparalleled in twentieth-century literature. The novel argues, with breathtaking subtlety, that the most significant human experiences — grief, beauty, artistic vision, and love — resist language and yet demand it. Mrs. Ramsay, the novel's magnetic and elusive center, haunts every page long after her presence has faded, leaving the reader to wonder: what does it truly mean to reach the other side?