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To the Lighthouse
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- Narrator
- Phyllida Law
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 November 2010
- Run Time
- 7 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“Beautiful…somber…Law’s rhythmic, poetic reading renders it with finesse.”
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“Law admirably narrates…easily moving from one character to another and keeping listeners engaged…Through stream-of-consciousness prose, the characters ponder family relationships, art, literature, and the roles of men and women.”
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Details
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- Narrator
- Phyllida Law
- Duration
- 7 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 November 2010
- ISBN
- 9781538483268
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Family life fiction
Synopsis
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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