To the lighthouse: (penguin classics deluxe edition) - virginia woolf

A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolfs masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home , and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition Every summer, Mr.

and Mrs.

Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotlands 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 times 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.

This edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the authors intentions, and includes a catalog of emendations, a foreword by the acclaimed novelist, memoirist, and poet Patricia Lockwood, and an introduction by the distinguished biographer and critic Hermione Lee.