To The Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2000)

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A pioneering work of modernist fiction using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella Mc Nichol with an introduction & notes by Hermione Lee To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday & a meditation on marriage on parenthood & childhood on grief tyranny & bitterness For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland & they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms the integrity of family & society will be fatally challenged With a psychologically introspective mode the use of memory reminiscence & shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate poetic essence & at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian & Edwardian literary values Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' an informal collective of artists & writers that exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed To the Lighthouse you might like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also available in Penguin Classics' Bears endless re-reading the sea encircles the story in a brilliant ebb & flow' Rachel Billington