To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series): A beautiful Vintage Classics gift edition of Woolf’s modernist classic - Couverture souple

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784870838 ISBN 13 : 9781784870836

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2016

Synopsis

The lighthouse waits across the bay.

Between the promise and the journey lies the whole fragile life of a family.

Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf’s greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage.
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The house is full of conversation, expectation, private irritation and small acts of tenderness. Yet the promised trip to the lighthouse does not take place.
Time passes, bringing war and death, and the summer home stands empty. Years later, the family return, altered by loss, to make the long-postponed visit.
This is Woolf at her most luminous and exacting, transforming domestic life into something vast. The novel’s power lies in the spaces between people: what they say, what they cannot say and what time allows them to understand too late.

'To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble
'Thrillingly introspective' The Independent

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bringing with it war and death, and the summer home stands empty until one day, many years later, when the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.

One of the great literary achieve

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784870838
• ISBN 13: 9781784870836
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Papendorpseweg 99; Utrecht; 3528 BJ; Pays-Bas