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To the Lighthouse

  • 242 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1927
  • 521 editions
  • Free to read

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1 About this book

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever.

In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting complexity of adult relationships. From an acute awareness of transcience, she creates an enduring work of art.

Good for readers who want: a classic and a book they can read free online.

  • Loss (Psychology)
  • Marriage
  • Psychological fiction
  • Domestic fiction
  • Classics
  • Married people
  • Death
  • Mothers

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3 About Virginia Woolf

1882–1941

Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Virginia Woolf was born in South Kensington, London, into an affluent and intellectual family as the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen.

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