To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf's lyrical, nostalgic novel centres at first on a family holiday in Skye where the subtle shifts of tension and affection between the Ramsays and their guests are delicately explored. James, the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Ramsay, has a devout wish to visit the lighthouse but his father, a rather pompous, philosophical man, seems determined to disappoint him. It is only many years later, when the war has brought dramatic changes to society and to the Ramsay family in particular, that the journey is made under very different circumstances. Virginia Woolf's extraordinary novel is both an elegy to her parents, whom she depicts as the Ramsays with a poignant accuracy, and an eloquent lament for a lost world, even if that world contained its own sorrows and disappointments.

COVER: Paperback

CONDITION: Pre-Loved

TYPE OF BOOK: Fiction

SUB-TYPE: Family Saga

ISBN: 9780140274165

LANGUAGE: English

SUGGESTED AGE LEVEL: Adult

AUTHOR'S NAME: Virginia Woolf

NO OF PAGES: 235

PUBLISHER NAME: Published 1964 by Penguin Books (first published May 5th 1927)