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To The Lighthouse
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  • Published: 21 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593468869
  • Imprint: Random House Diversified
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $22.99

To The Lighthouse

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4 June 2019
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18 June 2018
Paperback
1 Oct 2000
Hardback
12 Aug 2025
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2 May 2023
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7 Apr 2011
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1 Oct 2000
Audiobook
3 Sept 2020
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8 Aug 2023
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21 Feb 2023
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6 Aug 2019
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15 Dec 2004
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30 May 2023
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2 Dec 1991
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Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics

A beautiful edition of the groundbreaking classic novel, with a new introduction by award-winning writer Susan Choi

The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose. Though the novel turns on the death of its central figure, Mrs. Ramsay, 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. Observed across the years at their vacation house on the Isle of Skye, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the passage of time. To the Lighthouse enacts a moving allegory of the creative consciousness and its momentary triumphs over fleeting material life.
  • Published: 21 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593468869
  • Imprint: Random House Diversified
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
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Praise for To The Lighthouse

“To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time.” –Margaret Drabble “Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love. If you’re like me you’ll come back to this book often, always astounded, always moved, always refreshed.” –Rick Moody “[Woolf’s] people are astoundingly real…The tragic futility, the absurdity, the pathetic beauty, of life–we experience all of this in our sharing of seven hours of Mrs. Ramsay’s wasted or not wasted existence. We have seen, through her, the world.” –Conrad Aiken