To the Lighthouse
Ranked #3 in Modernism, Ranked #4 in Modernist — see more rankings.
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an... more
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Hermione Lee When all is said and done, I think it is her greatest novel. (Source)
Deborah Levy Aristotle tells us that all politics starts in the family, and you really do see that in To the Lighthouse. Woolf always said that there is no symbolism in the lighthouse at all, and I think we should believe her. All the same, I do think that the lighthouse, in a way, is Mrs Ramsay because the lighthouse is there to protect us from harm and from hazards, and Mrs Ramsay is a self-sacrificing, patient mother who attends to everyone’s needs and tends to protect them from hazards. Of course, that was an impossibility for Woolf, because her mother died when she was 13. So she is really trying to... (Source)
Rankings by Category
To the Lighthouse is ranked in the following categories:
- #16 in 1920S
- #52 in 20th Century
- #40 in Annotations
- #73 in Breakup
- #49 in English Writer
- #53 in Graduate School
- #74 in Time
- #70 in UK
- #41 in University
- #87 in Women
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