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To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf (Routledge English Texts)

by Virginia Woolf

From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles, in what is probably her most popular novel. (read review)

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Tinky
  • Rated 5 stars

“A luminous novel, a breathtaking achievement. Do not expect a conventional reading experience - nothing (and everything) happens, the prose is poetry, and the book deserves to be slowly and closely read.”

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  • Rated 2 stars

“Seatah said: Rated: Rating: 2 stars

I’ve lost interest in the book after about 80 pages, for a while I did not read word for word and then I started skipping pages, which I’ve never done before with any other book. It might be interesting to some readers, but it is not to be read for pleasure.”

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  • Rated 3.844758 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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