To the Lighthouse

The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of one family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramseys face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph-the human capacity for change. A moving portrait in miniature of family life, it also has profoundly universal implications, giving language to the silent space that separates people and the space that they transgress to reach each other.

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