145 a98fe001-b838-4646-b014-9b4e66741bb4 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf calibre (0.8.17) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1943-01-01T08:00:00+00:00 <p class="description">'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all throughit'Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolfproduced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. Itconcerns the Ramsay family and their summer guests on the Isle of Skye beforeand after the First World War. As children play and adults paint, talk, muse andexplore, relationships shift and mutate. A captivating fusion of elegy,autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, it is the mostaccomplished of all Woolf's novels. On completing it, she thought she hadexorcised the ghosts of her imposing parents, but she had also brought form to abook every bit as vivid and intense as the work of Lily Briscoe, the indomitableartist at the centre of the novel.</p> Oxford University Press 01-tY5z8yg0C 9780192805607 eng Psychological Literary Fiction Unknown Domestic Fiction Psychological Fiction English Classics Literary Criticism England European Married People Loss (Psychology) Widowers Mothers English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh Lighthouses Summer Resorts Middle Class Families Vacation Homes