{"product_id":"to-the-lighthouse-28","title":"To the Lighthouse","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse \u003c\/i\u003eis widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol, with an introduction and notes by Hermione Lee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group', an informal collective of artists and writers that exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) and \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e (1929) a passionate feminist essay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like James Joyce's \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Bears endless re-reading ... the sea encircles the story in a brilliant ebb and flow'\u003cbr\u003eRachel Billington\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54220830343512,"sku":"9780141183411","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141183411.jpg?v=1779939013","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/to-the-lighthouse-28","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}