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Informationen zum Autor Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out , Night and Day and Jacob's Room . Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway , To the Lighthouse , Orlando and the experimental The Waves . Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts , and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own . Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941. Alison Bechdel is the author of three internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama and The Secret to Superhuman Strength. Fun Home was a New York Times bestseller, won an Eisner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the Guardian, was adapted to a broadway musical which won five Tony Awards and is currently being adapted for cinema. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For , a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered 'one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre'. Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics , 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate , McSweeney's , Entertainment Weekly , Granta , and The New York Times Book Review . In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur 'Genius' Award. http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/ Klappentext First published with a foreword by Patricia Lockwood by Penguin Books (USA), 2023. Zusammenfassung A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home , and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper Every summer, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland’s idyllic Isle of Skye, surrounded by artist friends. They expect these summers will go on forever, but with the arrival of World War I, they are forced to reckon with change, loss, and time’s unstoppable march, before making, years later, the long-awaited return to Skye and to its towering lighthouse. An intimate, impressionistic meditation on memory, grief, the brutalities of war, and the tensions of domestic life, revolutionary for its use of stream of consciousness and shifting points of view, and infused with a singular poetic essence, To the Lighthouse is both a landmark in modernist writing and one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. This edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author’s intentions, and includes a catalog of emendations and an introduction by the distinguished biographer and critic Hermione Lee. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators....
