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To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf ; with an introduction by Julia Briggs.
Observed across the years at their vacation house facing the gales of the North Atlantic, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the passage of time.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679405375
- ISBN: 0679405372
- Physical Description: xxxiii, 238 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1992]
- Copyright: ©1955
Content descriptions
| General Note: | First included in Everyman's library, 1938. "First published in Great Britain by the Hogarth Press, 1927." -- Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxviii). |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | F WOOLF (Text) | 000162302 | Fiction | Available | - |
To the Lighthouse : Introduction by Julia Briggs
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To the Lighthouse : Introduction by Julia Briggs
A beautiful hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel. Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, To the Lighthouse is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universality. Observed across the years at their vacation house facing the gales of the North Atlantic, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the passage of time. Though it is the death of Mrs. Ramsay on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory that is also a celebration of domestic life and its most intimate details. Virginia Woolf's great book enacts a powerful allegory of the creative consciousness and its momentary triumphs over fleeting material life.
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