To the Lighthouse

<b>A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood<br><br>A Penguin Vitae Edition</b><br><br>Every summer Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland&#146;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&#146;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 <i>To the Lighthouse </i>is both a landmark in modernist writing and one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.<br><br>Penguin Vitae&#151;loosely translated as Penguin of one's life&#151;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.