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Introduction to To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf that centers on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. The plot takes a secondary role to philosophical introspection as the novel explores themes of loss, subjectivity, art and perception through little dialogue and the thoughts and observations of multiple characters. Considered an example of modernist literature, it recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships, and has been recognized as one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century.

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Introduction to To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf that centers on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. The plot takes a secondary role to philosophical introspection as the novel explores themes of loss, subjectivity, art and perception through little dialogue and the thoughts and observations of multiple characters. Considered an example of modernist literature, it recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships, and has been recognized as one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century.

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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 and almost no direct action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The
novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book's many
tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art and the problem of
perception.

In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best
English-language novels of the 20th century.[1] In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME
magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923.[2]

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