To the Lighthouse

'To the Lighthouse' is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works.

All rights reserved. These passages are interspersed with quick, sharp, simple sentences that gain strength in contrast. The introspective Mr. She creates not a new but a more nuanced reading, following the interwoven streams of consciousness in a British English that lends authenticity to each voice. Leishman swims smoothly through Woolf's sentences that ebb and flow with numerous parenthetical thoughts and fresh images. Leishman also draws our attention to Woolf's poetic prose: her rhythms and images, her use of hard consonants in monosyllabic words in counterpoint to long, soft, dreamy words and phrases. . From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. It's wondrous to listen to a fine reading of a long-loved novel. This is a book that cannot be read—or heard&mda

The incredible verbosity of introspection As is the case for every novel, there are characters that one can admire and those that one can detest. This can be by design by the author or by accidental imputation by the reader. This novel does not leave the reader neutral, and in fact does not require neutrality. In this work there is no gallivantin. Relish those sentences! Yvonne M Virginia Woolf facile use of the English language is breath-taking. She conveys the interior monologue of her characters, with its tangents and non-sequiturs, lucidly and it easy for the reader to follow without becoming disoriented or lost in the words. Read this just to savor her sentences! The ideas of. "Worth the read" according to Eliana. Stream of consciousness; one of the most cohesive and conflicting forms of writing invented. But it certainly is beautiful. As with any other Woolf novel, it twists and turns, revealing multitudinous layers. And for those of you that find it "dry" I encourage you to read until the end, when the story line