To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

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  • 192 pages
  • Year: 1927
  • ~21h 14m

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Over the course of a day - and again another day ten years later - the Ramsays and their friends plan a boating trip to the nearby lighthouse.

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Set on an island off the Scottish coast, To the Lighthouse minutely examines the fleeting impressions of a large cast of family, friends, lovers, and hangers-on. Who can we be, Virginia Woolf invites us to ask, if no one can ever know our hearts - if they're unknowable even to ourselves? To the Lighthouse remains one of the most important Modernist novels, exquisitely composed by one of the most gifted writers of the Modernist movement.

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