EAN: 9780143137573

WOOLF VIRGINIA TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece  featuring a new foreword by
Patricia Lockwood  A Penguin Vitae Edition   Every summer  Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight
children vacation on Scotland’s idyllic Isle of Skye  surrounded by artist friends. They expect
these summers will go on forever  but with the arrival of World War I  they are forced to
reckon with change  loss  and time’s unstoppable march  before making  years later  the
long-awaited return to Skye and to its towering lighthouse. An intimate  impressionistic
meditation on memory  grief  the brutalities of war  and the tensions of domestic life 
revolutionary for its use of stream of consciousness and shifting points of view  and infused
with a singular poetic essence  To the Lighthouse is both a landmark in modernist writing and
one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.  Penguin Vitae—loosely translated
as "Penguin of one's life"—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a
dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of
classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that
have shaped the course of their lives  and welcomes new readers to discover these literary
gifts of personal inspiration  intellectual engagement  and creative originality.

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