{"product_id":"to-the-lighthouse-isbn-9780143137573","title":"To the Lighthouse","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Vitae Edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery summer, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland’s idyllic Isle of Skye, surrounded by artist friends. They expect these summers will go on forever, but with the arrival of World War I, they are forced to reckon with change, loss, and time’s unstoppable march, before making, years later, the long-awaited return to Skye and to its towering lighthouse. An intimate, impressionistic meditation on memory, grief, the brutalities of war, and the tensions of domestic life, revolutionary for its use of stream of consciousness and shifting points of view, and infused with a singular poetic essence, \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse \u003c\/i\u003eis both a landmark in modernist writing and one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Vitae—loosely translated as \"Penguin of one's life\"—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.“I put off \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse \u003c\/i\u003efor a long time, in order to live in delicious anticipation of it. . . . Yet this pleasure can be drawn out for only so long; if you are a reader, the morning comes when you must greet it along with the sun. . . . There is never the sense, opening \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, that it could have been anything else. It opens with the weather, just like the real day. It rises to some occasion, wakes with the lark to meet the weekend―moves ‘with an indescribable air of expectation,’ because it is going to meet someone around the corner, and with the shock of encounter you sometimes feel in reading, you find that it is you.” ―\u003cb\u003ePatricia Lockwood, from the Foreword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “I reread this book every once in a while, and every time I do I find it more capacious and startling. It’s so revolutionary and so exquisitely wrought that it keeps evolving on its own somehow, as if it’s alive.” —\u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “I know of no more gut-wrenching, soaring prose about shared consciousness, mortality and water. Truly a book for the cradle to the grave.” —\u003cb\u003eMaggie Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This novel is just astonishing in its depth and reach and beauty. There is really nothing else like it, and no matter how many times I read it I find myself shocked at what Woolf was able to do.” —\u003cb\u003eMeg Wolitzer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again.” —\u003cb\u003eGreta Gerwig\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “My admiration for this book is complete. It is as beautiful, poignant, and ruthless as anything I have ever read.” —\u003cb\u003eSiri Hustvedt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Woolf’s groundbreaking novel is still one of the best available accounts of self-mythologizing middle-class family life and its oppressive construction of male and female identity.” —\u003cb\u003eRachel Cusk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time.” —\u003cb\u003eMargaret Drabble\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love. If you’re like me you’ll come back to this book often, always astounded, always moved, always refreshed.” —\u003cb\u003eRick Moody\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “She was doing with language something like what Jimi Hendrix does with a guitar.” —\u003cb\u003eMichael Cunningham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Radiant . . . I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.” —\u003cb\u003eEudora Welty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Thrillingly introspective.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “At the head of all Virginia Woolf’s work.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (1882–1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out,\u003c\/i\u003e in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), and \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) and the passionate feminist essay \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e (1929).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Lockwood\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Talking About This\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2021 Booker Prize finalist and one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e’s Ten Best Books of 2021, and the memoir \u003ci\u003ePriestdaddy\u003c\/i\u003e, one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e’s Ten Best Books of 2017, as well as the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eMotherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBalloon Pop Outlaw Black\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, where she is a contributing editor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHermione Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and the author of biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Penelope Fitzgerald. She was made a Dame for services to literary scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStella McNichol\u003c\/b\u003e (editor, notes) was the author of several critical studies on Virginia Woolf.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299987378405,"sku":"NP9780143137573","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143137573.jpg?v=1767742727","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/to-the-lighthouse-isbn-9780143137573","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}