{"product_id":"to-the-lighthouse-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-paperback","title":"To the Lighthouse: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStella McNichol\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStella McNichol\u003c\/b\u003e (Notes by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e, and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery summer, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland's idyllic Isle of Skye, surrounded by artist friends. They expect these summers will go on forever, but with the arrival of World War I, they are forced to reckon with change, loss, and time's unstoppable march, before making, years later, the long-awaited return to Skye and to its towering lighthouse. An intimate, impressionistic meditation on memory, grief, the brutalities of war, and the tensions of domestic life, revolutionary for its use of stream of consciousness and shifting points of view, and infused with a singular poetic essence, \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse \u003c\/i\u003eis both a landmark in modernist writing and one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's intentions, and includes a catalog of emendations, a foreword by the acclaimed novelist, memoirist, and poet Patricia Lockwood, and an introduction by the distinguished biographer and critic Hermione Lee.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out, \u003c\/i\u003e in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), and \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) and the passionate feminist essay \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e (1929). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Lockwood\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Talking About This\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2021 Booker Prize finalist and one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books of 2021, and the memoir \u003ci\u003ePriestdaddy\u003c\/i\u003e, one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books of 2017, as well as the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eMotherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBalloon Pop Outlaw Black\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, where she is a contributing editor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHermione Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and the author of biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Penelope Fitzgerald. She was made a Dame for services to literary scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStella McNichol\u003c\/b\u003e (editor, notes) was the author of several critical studies on Virginia Woolf. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel\u003c\/b\u003e (cover illustrator) is the author and illustrator of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling graphic memoir \u003ci\u003eFun Home, \u003c\/i\u003e which was \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's #1 Book of the Year and was adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, as well as the graphic memoirs \u003ci\u003eAre You My Mother?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret to Superhuman Strength\u003c\/i\u003e and the comic strip \u003ci\u003eDykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, among other honors.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44307511738470,"sku":"9780143137580","price":24.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/WURXZFZvYmFpWEdMbXI4bmx1eEZyUT09.webp?v=1767747332","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/to-the-lighthouse-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}