To the Lighthouse

"To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf, published by CreateSpace. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. It's wondrous to listen to a fine reading of a long-loved novel. Leishman makes masterly use of volume, timbre and resonance to distinguish between characters and draw us into the emotional swings and vibrations of the internal musings of each. She creates not a new but a more nuanced reading, following the interwoven streams of consciousness in a British English that lends authenticity to each voice. Leishman swims smoothly through Woolf's sentences that ebb and flow with numerous parenthetical thoughts and fresh images. These passages are interspersed with quick, sharp, simple sentences that gain strength in contrast. Leishman also draws our attention to Woolf's poetic prose: her rhythms and images, her use of hard consonants in monosyllabic words in counterpoint to long, soft, dreamy words and phrases. To The Lighthouse plays back and forth between telescopic and microscopic views of nature and human nature. Mrs. Ramsey is both trapped in and pleased in her roles as wife, mother and hostess. The introspective Mr. Ramsey is consumed with his legacy of long-since-published abstract philosophy. This is a book that cannot be reador heardtoo often. (Jan.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review _To the Lighthouse_ is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time. Margaret Drabble Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love. If youre like me youll come back to this book often, always astounded, always moved, always refreshed. Rick Moody [Woolfs] people are astoundingly realThe tragic futility, the absurdity, the pathetic beauty, of lifewe experience all of this in our sharing of seven hours of Mrs. Ramsays wasted or not wasted existence. We have seen, through her, the world. Conrad Aiken From the Hardcover edition. Formats : EPUB Read : Yes Book details: published 1943. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.