To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is a reissued hardcover edition published by Penguin on May 2, 2023. This edition features a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood and spans 288 pages. The narrative unfolds over several summers on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, where Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children enjoy idyllic vacations with artist friends. As World War I approaches, the family confronts themes of change, loss, and the passage of time, culminating in a long-awaited return to the lighthouse years later.
Readers will find an intimate exploration of memory, grief, and the complexities of family life within this work. Woolf employs innovative techniques such as stream of consciousness and shifting perspectives, creating a rich, poetic texture throughout the story. This edition is part of the Penguin Vitae series, which celebrates significant literary works that have influenced readers over the years, inviting both new and returning audiences to engage with this classic of modernist literature.
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A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood
A Penguin Vitae Edition
Every summer, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland’s idyllic Isle of Skye, surrounded by artist friends. 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. 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.
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. 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.
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