To the Lighthouse ."Radiant as To the Lighthouse is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a
| TITLE | : | To the Lighthouse |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.54 (614 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0156907399 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 209 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 1989-12-27 |
| GENRE | : |
"Radiant as To the Lighthouse is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality."-Eudora Welty, from the Introduction 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.
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. British actress Juliet Stevenson makes for a better reader of Woolf's words than Nicole Kidman's Oscar-winning turn as Woolf in The Hours. Stevenson carefully sorts through Woolf's famously tangled modernist masterpiece about the interior lives of a well-to-do British family, and the ways in which the First World War permanently damaged European society. She reads in an amplified hush, her exaggeratedly formal British diction adding poignancy to the sense of dislocation and disorder that marks the book's transition from pre- to postwar. Her reading is quietly, carefully precise, and that precision is a solid complement to Woolf's own measured, inward-looking prose. (June)
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