To the Lighthouse (Wisehouse Classics Edition)

<p><em><strong>To the Lighthouse</strong></em> is a 1927 novel by <em>Virginia Woolf</em>. The novel centers on the <em>Ramsays</em> and their visits to the <em>Isle of Skye</em> in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like <em>Marcel Proust </em>and <em>James Joyce</em> the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the literary technique of multiple focalization the novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relation­ships. Among the book’s many tropes and themes are those of loss subjectivity the nature of art and the problem of perception. In 1998 the <em>Modern Library</em> named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. In 2005 the novel was chosen by <em>TIME magazine</em> as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. (more on www.wisehouse-publishing.com)</p>