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Virginia Woolf, English author, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen was married to Leonard Woolf in 1912. Her first novel "The Voyage Out" was published in 1915 and met with immediate success. Her work is characterized by an extremely individual style and a careful choice of words. Among her other writings are Night and Day (1919), Jacob's Room (1922), Monday or Tuesday (1921) and others.... "To the Lighthouse" is a beautiful account of the deepest currents of thought which lie back to the activities and conversations of a group of people, thrown together for a summer. This edition includes 19 illustrations by August Macke.
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About the Author:
Virginia Woolf was an influential English author best known for her involvement with the Bloomsbury Group, an association of intellectuals and artists including, John Maynard Keynes and E. M. Forster, who are credited with influencing early twentieth-century literature, criticism, and economics. Woolf became a prolific writer in between the two World Wars, and some of her most famous works, including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, are now among the most prominent English books of the modern period. A life-long sufferer of depression, Woolf was institutionalized numerous times before taking her own life in 1941.
Review:
“To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the
English language, a book which transcends time.” –Margaret Drabble
“Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love. If you’re like me you’ll come back to this book often, always astounded, always moved, always refreshed.” –Rick Moody
“[Woolf’s] people are astoundingly real...The tragic futility, the absurdity, the pathetic beauty, of life–we experience all of this in our sharing of seven hours of Mrs. Ramsay’s wasted or not wasted existence.
We have seen, through her, the world.” –Conrad Aiken
From the Hardcover edition.
English language, a book which transcends time.” –Margaret Drabble
“Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love. If you’re like me you’ll come back to this book often, always astounded, always moved, always refreshed.” –Rick Moody
“[Woolf’s] people are astoundingly real...The tragic futility, the absurdity, the pathetic beauty, of life–we experience all of this in our sharing of seven hours of Mrs. Ramsay’s wasted or not wasted existence.
We have seen, through her, the world.” –Conrad Aiken
From the Hardcover edition.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1475268378
- ISBN 13 9781475268379
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages178
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