To the Lighthouse (The Classic Collection)

Woolf, Virginia

ISBN 10: 1480560197 ISBN 13: 9781480560192

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2014

Synopsis

To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.

Split into three parts, the story observes Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, and their children at their vacation house on the Isle of Skye. While the novel follows seemingly trivial events between the family members, the plot takes a backseat to philosophical introspection, which gave the novel its fame as an icon of modernist literature. The Ramsays' quest to recapture meaning creates a powerful allegory of man’s impermanent battle with the tangible world.

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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

""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

"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"

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"

"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 Publisher

With introductions by Eavan Boland and Maud Ellmann

Edition details

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1480560197
• ISBN 13: 9781480560192
• Binding: MP3 CD