To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
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The Ramsays and their guests spend a summer at their house on the Isle of Skye, where a small boy wants more than anything to sail out to the lighthouse tomorrow. Ten years pass in a few pages, and some of them come back to finish what was started. Woolf's novel of memory, marriage and time (1927).
About the author
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English novelist and essayist, and one of the central figures of literary modernism. She wrote novels that follow consciousness rather than plot — a day in a city, a decade passing in an empty house — and found a form for the way attention actually moves. With her husband Leonard she ran the Hogarth Press, which published her own books along with T. S. Eliot and the first English translations of Freud. Her work includes Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves and the essay A Room of One's Own.