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'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'

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Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was a major modernist novelist and the centre of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves. She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including A Room of One's Own (1929), a passionate feminist essay. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

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Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid.

With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life among friends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself.

Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). From then on her fiction became a series of brilliant and extraordinarily varied experiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting the relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and history. She was particularly concerned with women's experience, not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of feminist polemic, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938).

Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). All these are published by Penguin, as are her Diaries, Volumes I-V, and selections from her essays and short stories.

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4.0 out of 5 stars To the lighthouse
Reviewed in Australia on 5 May 2020
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I gave this 4 star rating as it was well written.
Full of surprises
Good use of insight into each character
Good descriptions
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Belinda
3.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunate timing
Reviewed in Australia on 19 January 2015
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I honestly can't say I enjoyed this book. I didn't really want to read it, but had to for university, which never helps a book's cause, and I had to read it faster than it probably deserved. I'm not a huge Woolf fan, but even I have to admit there are some shining moments in this novel that made the strain of reading it easier to bear.
I do intend on going back to this at some point, when I can give it the time and attention it deserves so that I may fully appreciate it.
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Steven R. Hunt
1.0 out of 5 stars Very poor quality
Reviewed in Australia on 17 July 2018
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Purchased Kindle version with optional audio book. In many cases there are missing or added words, lines and in some cases paragraphs. Without purchasing a reputable product I have no idea which is correct or if both are at fault. Very poor quality control.
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Angel G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read.
Reviewed in Mexico on 8 August 2023
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Very interesting story.
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E. P. Dias
1.0 out of 5 stars Livro maravilhoso, edição com erros
Reviewed in Brazil on 7 April 2022
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Esse livro é um dos mais lindos que já li, mas esta edição tem muitos erros, faltam trechos, alguns se repetem. Ainda bem que tinha a edição em papel e este foi barato, mas queria ter lido no kindle por causa do dicionário.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I have ever read.
Reviewed in India on 5 March 2024
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This was my first time reading Virginia Woolf. And I am amazed. The hook is written so beautifully that it brings waters to my eyes.

It has three sections and each of them sees the world through a diffrent perspective. In the first section, it is in the pov if Mrs. Ramsay, a kind woman who has eight children and a hypocrite for a husband. She let's people live in her house for free. The section revolves around her and how she deals with everything (her kids, her husband as well as the guests). It is basically an introduction to all the characters.

The second part is quite short. It is narrated after the World War I. Here, it is told that some characters had died (I won't spoil it for you) and the other had left the home in which they all lived before. Now they are coming back there for a break.

The third part is narrated through the eyes of Lily briscoe, who was before a guest at the house. She tries to finish a painting she has been working on for years. Meanwhile, Mr. Ramsay and two of his children go to visit the lighthouse.

I recommend that everyone reads it, it is suck a beautiful book. I would give this a 10/5 stars.
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Marvel Yassa
5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful book
Reviewed in Germany on 7 November 2021
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One of Woolf's great masterpieces. Had to get the book for uni studies and it is great and is just a different type of book as in the narration Woold delves into the conscience of each character and it's beautiful but sometimes distracting for the reader.
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E. A. Hag
5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the wait
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2021
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It's taken 50 years to read this book after struggling with The Waves at school. It is wonderful at capturing our minds being torn in different directions, especially women struggling between an instinct to support others and a deep desire for self expression that requires selfishness with one's time.
Woolf's descriptive powers are breathtaking. There is a line about dawn breaking that so perfectly describes a tiny transluscence that appears inside a wave it is as if it is being observed by a mermaid.
Gripping, tragic, hopeful.
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