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Original Title:	To the Lighthouse
ISBN:	140679239X (ISBN13: 9781406792393)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	James Ramsay, Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, Paul Rayley, Minta Doyle, Charles Tansley, William Bankes, Augustus Carmichael, Andrew Ramsay, Jasper Ramsay, Roger Ramsay, Prue Ramsay, Rose Ramsay, Nancy Ramsay, Cam Ramsay, Mrs. McNab
Setting:	Isle of Skye, Scotland
Literary Awards:	Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais (1928)

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

Paperback | Pages: 209 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 122237 Users | 6757 Reviews

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Title	:	To the Lighthouse
Author	:	Virginia Woolf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 209 pages
Published	:	December 27th 1989 by Harvest Books (first published 1927)
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fantasy. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics

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The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.

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To be immersed within the lives of Virginia Woolfs characters of To the Lighthouse was a splendid joy. As I turned the pages I felt almost like one of them. Through a prose that seamlessly and easily interplays thoughts, emotions and witty remarks Woolf present us an amazing group of family and friends. There they were, each with its own personalities, set of issues, challenges and desires, requiring only a glimpse to reveal them utterly unique to the reader. And on they move through time and

Much of the novel - like the light and dark of the lighthouse beacon, or waves crashing in and back out - works in a balanced opposition: Crowdedness and the lack of privacy juxtaposed against the condition of utter aloneness. The bond between Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay counterbalanced with their awareness of what they've cost one another. The collusion of the children, their secretiveness and wildness, but then their docility and vulnerability. Trapped thoughts that can't be told, but are then

Im sorry...I just dont get it?This book has numerous five star reviews, and while I understand it isnt plot driven, the characters are so vague? They all kind of blur together so I never really knew who was speaking/thinking and when. So many thoughts flying around and I just didnt see the point in them. I guess I just dont have the mind required to appreciate whatever it is I am supposed to appreciate in this book. If someone would like to tell me what it is I missed that would be helpful,

This was a book I thought I should read. It is described as the novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the 20th century. So I started, and on page 6, I came to this sentence She was now formidable to behold, and it was only in silence, looking up from their plates, after she had spoken so severely about Charles Tansley, that her daughters, Prue, Nancy, Rose - could sport with infidel ideas which they had brewed for themselves of a life different from hers; in Paris,

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. -Honore de BalzacEvidently, Woolf could write with the hand what we see with the eye and perceive and articulate emotions whose depths remain fathomless.Woolf retains an imagery with dexterous strokes revolving around a family household with each character asserting its presence in the scene so strong it is asphyxiating the reader. Each of these broad strokes enunciates an image, a perspective, a belief upheld by each of the

I'm finding it difficult to watch movies these days, or at least to find one that fulfills the requirements I'm looking for. Their cumbersome attempts at developing fully formed characters, believable folks that intersect with one another in realistic ways, patterns that you can readily see happening in your own life that are entertaining nonetheless for all their normality. These attempts painfully clunk out at random, grinding out a plot that you can't help cringing at, so trite and false it

Virginia Woolf here gives us possibly the best ever description of her own writing method, especially fitting for this novel and The Waves Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron. It was to be a thing you could ruffle with your breath; and a thing you could not dislodge with a team of horses.Perhaps the first thing to say