To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
3.81(207,378 ratings)
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial po…
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An absolutely beautiful view into the minds of a family and their guests out on the Hebrides. At times surreal, but always intensely poetic and moving. Woolf tackles the question of memory, the shifting entropy of consciousness, and the impossibility of knowing the other. It's like reading watercolor as perspective shifts from character to character, present to past, reality to imagination. I enjoyed this more than The Waves, though it is similar.