To the Lighthouse (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Stream of consciousness
- Time of Work: c. 1910-1920
- Setting: The Isle of Skye in the Hebrides
- Principal Characters: Mr. Ramsay, Mrs. Ramsay, James, Camilla, Mr. Tansley, Lily Briscoe, Mr. Carmichael
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Family or family life, Philosophy or philosophers, Tradition, Gender roles, Art or artists, Marriage, Social life, 1910’s, Islands, Creative process, World War I, Scotland or Scottish people, Parties, Victorian era or Victorianism, Lighthouses
- Locales: Hebrides, Scotland, Isle of Skye, England
The Story:
Mrs. Ramsay promised James, her six-year-old son, that if the next day were fair he would be taken on a visit to the lighthouse they could see from the window of their summer home on the Isle of Skye. James, the youngest of Mrs. Ramsay’s eight children, was his mother’s favorite. The father of the family was a professor of philosophy whose students often thought that he was inspiring and one of the foremost metaphysicians of the early twentieth century; but his own children, particularly the youngest, did not like him because he made sarcastic remarks.
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