- Paperback: 209 pages
- Publisher: Wholesaler Unique rescued for Dillons; Reprint edition (5 Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0156907399
- ISBN-13: 978-0156907392
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.5 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,683,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`it is an elegy for lost times and family life'. --The Week
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The Ramsay family and assorted guests are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial incident of a postponed trip to the lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs an examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life.
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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a lyrical family story,
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This review is from: To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and one of her most widely read. In three parts, it tells the story of the Ramsay family before and after the First World War: The first one describes a September day spent by the family and some of their friends on the Isle of Skye. The second part deals with the change in the holiday residence and the gradual decline of the house in the following ten years as well as with the life and the fate of the family members. In the last part, Woolf tells us how Mr. Ramsay and two of his children come back after the long absence and how the journey to the lighthouse promised ten years ago finally takes place.With her usual gift of understanding and reflecting people's thoughts and feelings, fears and longings, griefs and joys, Virginia Woolf steps into the background and leaves it to the characters' reflections to tell the story of their life in an astonishing and beautifully lyrical way. We read about childhood, marriage, loss and death, grief and love, but also about British society and patriarchal family values during the transition from Victorianism to the Modern times. I really enjoyed reading To the Lighthouse, because Virginia Woolf's knows, like nobody else, how to combine the thematic challenges she sets herself with a beautiful fluent and lyrical style. What is striking is the identification of the author with the inner state of her characters. You just can't stop reading and deeply regret having reached the final page of the novel.
33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable, but slightly difficult.,
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This review is from: To the Lighthouse (Penguin Popular Classics) (Paperback)
To the Lighthouse was my first Virginia Woolf book, and I did enjoy it, although I was slightly taken aback by the difficulty of the stream-of-consciousness style. It is probably helpful to read some research on the author, or at least to be a little familiar with her work, before approaching this book. Within Virginia Woolf's books, I believe that To the Lighthouse is rated as "average" difficulty, so it probably should not be the first to read, as I did.In any case, it is an excellent novel from a literary point of view; it is beautifully well written and projects intense feelings on the reader. The book should not be approached as an ordinary novel; you should not expect a conventional plot, because that is not what the writer is aiming at. Instead, you will be able to feel as if you were part of each character, which is a breath-taking experience.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It Didn't Blind Me With Its Light,
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This review is from: To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
When `To The Lighthouse' opens we join James Ramsey and his parents as they discuss the likelihood of visiting the nearby lighthouse the following day. Mrs Ramsey tries to pacify her son by saying that they can `if the weather is fine' however Mr Ramsey is pessimistic and almost cruel in telling his son that `it won't be fine' somehow this initial chapter both sets the tone for the rest of the book. In fact really it sets the scene for the rest of the book where in three parts we see what becomes of the Ramsey family before and after World War I and why many years later they make that journey back to the lighthouse in question.
I found the way this book was written was quite incredible. The first part of the book sets the scene and tone of the rest of it, as I mentioned before whilst introducing all the characters. The second part I found an incredible piece of technically skilled writing as Woolf manages to encompass a decade of a family's life including an event that rocks the family during the war torn years of World War I (Woolf called this writing a H, with two parts of a story and a corridor in the middle). I think that might be why I keep trying with Woolf, writing wise she is amazing its the stories and the books as a whole that just dont seem to grab me and feel a little bit like chore rather than an enthralling read. It saddens me as I desperately want to love her work.
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