by Virginia Woolf · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140622140
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«To the Lighthouse» is Virginia Woolf's modernist novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (304 pages, in English).
The action takes place on the Isle of Skye: the Ramsay family and their guests spend the summer in a house by the sea while a visit to the lighthouse is postponed. Woolf uses stream of consciousness to address family relationships, gender roles, tensions within marriage, and the children's resentment towards their parents.
This edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection and was published in 1996. The novel, originally published in 1927, received the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse in 1928.
Aimed at the general public; it is also a common reading in book clubs and school settings for its literary value.
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
