To The Lighthouse

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness - I am nothing. - Virginia Woolf

First
published in 1927, Virginia Woolf's loosely autobiographical novel
features the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye between
1910 and 1920, a period which spans World War I. Six-year old James
wants to visit the lighthouse they can see from their window and his
mother tells him they'll go the next day if the weather permits...

Following in the footsteps of Marcel Proust and James Joyce, To the Lighthouse
is a modernist novel that uses a stream-of-consciousness technique to
deal with the complexities of who and what we are and how we perceive
the world as we trudge through the shifting sands of time. While the
reader awaits the long-delayed trip to the lighthouse, the themes of the
text are the transience of life, absence and the inevitability of
death. Everything will pass but not the enduring power of art. This is a
subtle, psychological masterpiece from a great writer.

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