To The Lighthouse Paperback - 1989
by Virginia Woolf
- Used
- Good
- first
A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse explores thesubjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides for the Ramsay family.
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Details
- Title To The Lighthouse
- Author Virginia Woolf
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 209
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date 1989-12-27
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0156907399-11-1
- ISBN 9780156907392 / 0156907399
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Reading level 1030
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: British
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86168903
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
“Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.”—Eudora Welty, from the Introduction
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.
First Edition Identification
To the Lighthouse was first published by Woolf’s own London-based Hogarth Press in May of 1927. Bound in blue cloth, first editions have no additional printings listed on the copyright page. The original cream-colored dust jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell, Woolf’s sister, features a lighthouse amid waves in pale blue and black ink.
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/26/2009, Page 90