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(0)Virginia Woolf
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Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.
Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the literary technique of multiple focalization, the novel includes little dialogue...
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Everyman's library volume 157
Language
English
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Considered to be, one of Virginia Woolf's most popular novels, Mrs. Dalloway follows one high-society woman as she goes about her day planning a splendid party for her acquaintances. As she goes about her day, she ponders on the life she could be living had she not married the reliable Richard Dalloway, and instead sought the enigmatic Peter Walsh. At one point, she muses on the fact that she had not the option to be with a close female friend of...
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Publisher
[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Rachel Vinrace sets out on a sea voyage to South America aboard her father's ship, she not only departs from England, but also sails away from her small, insulated life, and her preconceptions about the world and the people in it.
The Voyage Out was Virginia Woolf's first novel and was originally published in 1915 after five years of work. The book was well-received and added much to the foundations of Woolf's literary fame. In 1981, the scholar...