To the Lighthouse

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Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel's disparate cast.
A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten.
Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.

About the author

Virginia Woolf wurde am 25. Januar 1882 in London geboren und wuchs im großbürgerlichen Milieu des viktorianischen England auf. Der Tod ihrer Mutter 1895 und ihrer älteren Schwester führte zu einer schweren psychischen Krise, deren Schatten sie nie mehr loslassen sollten. 1912 heiratete sie Leonard Woolf. Zusammen gründeten sie 1917 den Verlag The Hogarth Press. Bereits in jungen Jahren bildete sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Bruder den Mittelpunkt der intellektuellen "Bloomsbury Group". Ihr Haus war eines der Zentren der Künstler und Literaten der Bloomsbury Group. Ihre Romane zählen zu den Meilensteinen moderner Literatur. Zugleich war sie eine der einflußreichsten Essayistinnen ihrer Zeit. Aus Furcht, geistig zu umnachten, nahm sie sich am 28. März 1941 nach einem Bombenangriff das Leben.

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Product details

• Authors: Virginia Woolf
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9780007934416
• ISBN: 978-0-00-793441-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 181 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Collins Classics; Collins Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Isle of Skye, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Virginia, Autobiography: literary, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Autobiography: writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: from c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary