Genre
Literary fiction
To the Lighthouse
A modernist classic about time, family and seeing.
Details
Subgenre
Family and perception novel
Original publication
5 May 1927
Original publisher
Hogarth Press
Pages
209
Format
Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions
Language
English
Setting
The Isle of Skye and the Ramsay family home
ISBN
9780156907392
Original title
To the Lighthouse
About the book
A family's deferred trip to the lighthouse becomes a meditation on perception, grief, art and the passage of time.
A refined recommendation for readers asking for modernism, family, memory, art, grief and beautifully interior prose.
The novel is less about plot than consciousness, emotional weather and how people remain partly unknowable to one another.
It suits readers seeking subtle literary fiction with art, domestic life and philosophical attention.
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