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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 0151907366
ISBN-13: 9780151907366
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
In TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1927) Virginia Woolf chooses a three-part structure and an elegiac, ode-like form to reveal the complexities of family politics. The autobiographical plot-which Woolf claimed finally "laid to rest" her conflicted feelings about her parents-begins in St. Ives, where Woolf's family, the Stephens, spent summers when she was a child. ("The sea is to be heard all through it," she wrote in her diary.) It then follows Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, their children, and a small cast of characters over the course of many years as their lives converge, change, and shatter. The novel is notable for the fact that it doesn't deal in large events-an important death happens offstage, almost offhandedly, and World War I never makes an appearance-but concentrates on the characters' internal, subjective reactions, which are revealed in multiple points of view. Woolf herself questioned whether TO THE LIGHTHOUSE should be called a novel or some entirely new form of literature. However, it is widely considered to be one of Woolf's finest achievements, notable for its elegant, nuanced language and its insight into the human condition as it is affected by time, death, and the bonds of family.
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"TO THE LIGHTHOUSE has not the formal perfection, the cohesiveness, the intense vividness of characterization that belong to MRS. DALLOWAY. It has particles of failure in it. It is inferior to MRS. DALLOWAY in the degree to which its aims are achieved; it is superior in the magnitude of the aims themselves. For in its portrayal of life that is less orderly, more complex and so much doomed to frustration, it strikes a more important note, and it gives us an interlude of vision that must stand at the head of all Virginia Woolf's work." -- L. Kronenberger
-- New York Times Book Review
"TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, is a book I can't read without weeping." -- Jane Smiley
"[A] I went through TO THE LIGHTHOUSE again, I was stunned by Virginia Woolf's prose. I could not read those tender, pressing, inward-driving sentences without stopping, reading again, and letting the words and rhythms sink in." -- David Denby
"It really is most unfortunate that she rules out copulation-not the ghost of it visible-so that her presentation of things become little more...than an arabesque-an exquisite arabesque, of course." -- Lytton Strachey
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harcourt
Published date: 1981
Publisher's Notes
An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a 10 year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time.
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To the Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1981. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). H Hard Cover in Slipcase. Good. Book club edition. Good in purple cloth with board slipcase; Light soiling and wear to boards and to cocked, faded spine; Dampstain to textblock foot does not bleed into margins; Light soiling, wear, and irregular fading to slipcase. ( more information) Offered by Arundel Books of Seattle (United States)
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To The Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 1981. Slipcase is faded and has a scuff in the paper . Cloth and Boards. Very Good/Boxed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Lofthouse Books (United States)
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To the Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia. Foreword by Eudora Welty
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1981. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 209pp. Purple cloth lettered in silver. Housed in a light purple paper-covered slipcase with title label. Very Good+, fading to spine, thin mark to foot of spine in Very Good+ slipcase, light fading to edges. ( more information) Offered by Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers (United States)
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To the Lighthouse (Centenary Editions Ser.)
Woolf, Virginia
San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1981 209pp. In purple slip case with some fading. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Allen's Bookshop (United States)
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To the Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981. A very good copy -- tight and clean -- with a wonderful introduction by Eudora Welty. The slipcase is slightly faded around the opening.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Quarto. Fiction. ( more information) Offered by The Amber Wave (United States)
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To the lighthouse; foreword by Eudora Welty
Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1981. xii+209p., foreword, very good first printing of this edition with Welty's foreword, in lavender cloth boards, slipcased with printed paper label,, case is lightly-sunned and slightly abraded. Grier B*. ( more information) Offered by Bolerium Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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To the Lighthouse. Foreword By Eudora Welty
Woolf, Virginia
N.Y.: N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981, 1981. Cloth. First Edition of This Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 209p. A very good copy, the spine of which is very faintly faded, in a good slipcase which is slightly soiled.. ISBN: 0151907366. First Edition of This Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by The Chatham Bookseller (United States)
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To the Lighthouse
WOOLF, Virginia; WELTY, Eudora
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1981 Slipcased reissued edition, with an original preface by Eudora Welty.. First Reissue Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Issued without a dust Jacket. ( more information) Offered by SYLVESTER & ORPHANOS (United States)
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TO THE LIGHTHOUSE [ 1st ]
WOOLF, Virginia Foreword by Eudora Welty
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Hardcover, issued w/out dj, in a slipcase. . First Edition Thus. ( more information) Offered by Rare Book Cellar (United States)
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