Works of Virginia Woolf: The Lighthouse

Monarch Notes, 20050229 by Woolf, Virgina

Woolf, Virgina Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Lighthouse Of Time And The Artist: Introduction To To The Lighthouse Time And Art: If The Waves is the most experimental and "extreme" of Virginia Woolf's books, Orlando the most lighthearted and Mrs. Dalloway in a sense the most enigmatic, To the Lighthouse is for most readers the most moving and, as a result, may be considered really the most successful.

Moreover, it makes the most interesting and perhaps the most poetic use of time. Where in Mrs. Dalloway the author expanded the events of a seventeen-hour period, one day in the life of a London society woman, into the material of a novel; where in Orlando she contracted four centuries into a single lifetime; in To the Lighthouse (as in The Waves) she...

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