To the Lighthouse

A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood. A Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe 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.. This edition is collated from all known proofs manuscripts and impressions to reflect the author’s intentions and includes a catalog of emendations and an introduction by the distinguished biographer and critic Hermione Lee.. For more than seventy-five years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2000 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.