To the Lighthouse

<p class=ql-align-justify> Widely acclaimed since its first publication in 1927 Virginia Woolf's <em>To the Lighthouse</em> is a novel whose overt simplicity of plot veils a complex mix of autobiographical detail tangled social questions and deep philosophical enigmas. </p><p class=ql-align-justify> The author's innovative use of nonlinear plot stream-of-consciousness and varying narrators transforms the apparently 'normal' incidents in the life of the Ramsay family into a probing reflection on personal relationships the passage of time gender morality happiness and death. </p><p class=ql-align-justify> Woolf considered <em>To the Lighthouse</em> to be easily the best of my books a judgement with which serious students of literature can only concur.</p><p><br></p>