{"product_id":"to-the-lighthouse","title":"To the Lighthouse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1927, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e centres on the Ramsay family and their guests during a summer holiday at their house on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. At its heart is the long-postponed promise of a journey to the nearby lighthouse, an apparently simple excursion that becomes charged with the hopes, frustrations and unspoken tensions of family life. Through the perspectives of Mrs Ramsay, her husband, the philosopher Mr Ramsay, and Lily Briscoe, a young painter struggling to complete her work, Woolf explores the fragile bonds between people and the private worlds that exist beneath everyday conversation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDivided into three distinct sections, the novel moves across time, tracing the effects of absence, loss and memory on those who remain. Its shifting rhythms of consciousness and lyrical attention to ordinary experience make it one of the defining achievements of literary Modernism. Drawing upon Woolf's own childhood memories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also a profound meditation on art, mortality, family and the elusive nature of human understanding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Virginia Woolf, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“It is superior in the magnitude of the aims themselves.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Louis Kronenberger, The New York Times (1927)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64182844621130,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/to-the-lighthouse","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}