To the lighthouse

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Hardback (ISBN: 9781509844548) Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library series

Described by Virginia Woolf herself as ‘easily the best of my books’, and by her husband Leonard as a ‘masterpiece’, To the Lighthouse, first published in 1927, is one of the milestones of Modernism. Set on the Isle of Skye, over a decade spanning the First World War, the narrative centres on the Ramsay family, andContinue reading →

Smith College Libraries, Woolf in the World: A Pen and a Press of Her Own, page proofs of To the Lighthouse

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What makes it challenging: Plot? What plot? I mean, it's there, but this is a novel about philosophical introspection, with a plot that kind of happens in the background and is very hard to follow. There is minimal dialogue and action, because the whole thing is so internal.Excerpt: "She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon…