To the Lighthouse Introduction by Julia Briggs

"To the Lighthouse features the serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests who are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflicts within a marriage."--BOOK JACKET.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) transformed the art of the novel with ground-breaking works such as Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. The author of numerous collections of letters, journals, and short stories, she was an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form. To the Lighthouse was first published in 1927. Eudora Welty is the highly celebrated author of many short stories and novels, among them The Golden Apples, Delta Wedding, and The Optimist's Daughter