About the Book

'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening' To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. With a psychologically introspective mode, the use of memory, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

All Editions

9780241371954
Paperback, 4th Edition
ISBN13: 9780241371954
Penguin Classics, 2019
9780241341681
Paperback, 4th Edition
ISBN13: 9780241341681
Penguin Books Limited, 2018
9780156030472
Paperback, 12th Edition
ISBN13: 9780156030472
Harcourt, 2005
9780141183411
Paperback, 13th Edition
ISBN13: 9780141183411
Penguin Books Ltd, 2000
9781857150308
Hardcover, 9th Edition
ISBN13: 9781857150308
Everymans Library, 1991
9780156907392
Paperback, 5th Edition
ISBN13: 9780156907392
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989

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