It opens with the weather, just like the real day.

There is never the sense, opening To the Lighthouse, that it could have been anything else. Yet this pleasure can be drawn out for only so long if you are a reader, the morning comes when you must greet it along with the sun. 'I put off To the Lighthouse for a long time, in order to live in delicious anticipation of it. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality. Penguin Vitae-loosely translated as 'Penguin of one's life'-is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing.

An intimate, impressionistic meditation on memory, grief, the brutalities of war, and the tensions of domestic life, revolutionary for its use of stream of consciousness and shifting points of view, and infused with a singular poetic essence, To the Lighthouse is both a landmark in modernist writing and one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.

They expect these summers will go on forever, but with the arrival of World War I, they are forced to reckon with change, loss, and time's unstoppable march, before making, years later, the long-awaited return to Skye and to its towering lighthouse. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland's idyllic Isle of Skye, surrounded by artist friends. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.'-īook Synopsis A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Vitae Edition Every summer, Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. About the Book 'The serene and maternal Mrs.

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