(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
Virginia Woolf
"Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it."
The Ramsay family spends summers on the Isle of Skye. Eight-year-old James desperately wants to visit the lighthouse; his father says the weather won't permit it. Ten years pass — altered by war, by death, by the slow erosion of certainty — before the journey is finally made. Virginia Woolf published To the Lighthouse in 1927, and it is widely considered her greatest novel.
Unfolding almost entirely in the consciousness of its characters, it is a novel about time — how it passes, what it takes, and what survives. The Ramsay family is drawn with such intimate precision that readers who have spent a hundred pages with them feel the novel's losses as personal ones. Woolf's prose, at once lyrical and exact, achieves something no other novelist of her generation quite managed: the texture of experience itself.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Woolf's original, unabridged text — a seminal work of modernist fiction in a format worthy of its stature.
