To the Lighthouse
Read by
Phyllida Law
Release:
11/01/2010
Runtime:
7h 37m
A Modern Library's 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century
A London Times Pick at #7 of the 50 Best Novels of the Last 100 Years
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny, and bitterness.
Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence, and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.
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