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·Editorial Reviews
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 read—or heard—too often. (Jan.)
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Woolf's beautiful, if somber, 1927 novel falls into three parts. First is a scene of a large, complex family on summer holiday before the Great War, their guests, their servants, their belongings, their style of life, and a postponed day trip to the distant lighthouse, longed for by the youngest child, James. The second section deals with what happened next, to them and to England, and the last reassembles some of the remaining characters at the scene of the first, for the lighthouse trip, so changed from the one once anticipated. Phyllida Law's rhythmic, poetic reading renders it with finesse, though her reading of Mrs. Ramsey may not satisfy every reader's concept of the character. B.G. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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Subject of this extraordinary novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides. “Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.”-Eudora Welty, from her Introduction.
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Virginia Woolf is one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, and To the Lighthouse is perhaps her crowning achievement. The story of the Ramsay family and the guests visiting their summer house in the Hebrides, Woolf? --This text refers to the Digital edition.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1927. The work is one of her most successful and accessible experiments in the stream-of-consciousness style. The three sections of the book take place between 1910 and 1920 and revolve around various members of the Ramsay family during visits to their summer residence on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. A central motif of the novel is the conflict between the feminine and masculine principles at work in the universe. With her emotional, poetical frame of mind, Mrs. Ramsay represents the female principle, while Mr. Ramsay, a self-centered philosopher, expresses the male principle in his rational point of view. Both are flawed by their limited perspectives. A painter and friend of the family, Lily Briscoe, is Woolf's vision of the androgynous artist who personifies the ideal blending of male and female qualities. Her successful completion of a painting that she has been working on since the beginning of the novel is symbolic of this unification. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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One of the greatest literary achievements of the 20th century and the author's most popular novel. The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. 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.
About the Author
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. From 1915 onward, she maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography. She married Leonard Woolf and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. She died in 1941.
·To the Lighthouse | Introduction
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The 1927 publication of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was a landmark for both the author and the development of the novel in England. Usually regarded as her finest achievement, it won her the Prix Femina the following year, and gained her a reputation as one of Britain's most important living authors. Not only was it a critical success, it was popular too, selling in large quantities to a readership that encompassed a broad spectrum of social classes. Since Woolf's death in 1941, To the Lighthouse has risen in importance as a focus of criticism concerning issues of gender, empire, and class. Along with James Joyce's Ulysses, it continues to be heralded as a milestone in literary technique.
The complexity of Woolf's writing in To the Lighthouse has become almost proverbially intimidating, as suggested famously in the title of Edward Albee's 1962 play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Written from multiple perspectives and shifting between times and characters with poetic grace, the novel is not concerned with plot. Instead, it paints a verbal picture of the members of the Ramsay family and their friends. In the first section, the character of Mrs. Ramsay is the lens through which most of the perspectives are focused, and her son's desire to go "to the Lighthouse" is the organizing impetus from which the picture takes shape. In the central section, the Lighthouse stands empty as the narrative marks the passage of time and the death of many of the characters. In the third and final section, with Mrs. Ramsay dead, the remaining family and friends finally get to the Lighthouse, and the novel becomes a meditation on love, loss, and creativity.
---Will
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主演审查。它的令人惊奇，听取了罚款读一个历史悠久，热爱小说。 使得巧妙的使用量，音色与共鸣区分字和借鉴我们进入了情绪波动和振动的内部每个。她创造不是一个新的，但一个更细致入微读，随溪流交织在一起的意识，在英式英语贷款的真实性，以每一个声音。 n游泳顺利通过伍尔夫的句子，历经跌宕起伏与无数括号的想法和新鲜的图像。这些通道间以快速，夏普，简单的句子，获得力量的对比。 还提请我们注意伍尔夫的诗歌散文：她的节奏和图像，她用硬辅音在单音节词位长，柔软，梦幻单词和短语。到灯塔起着间来回奔波望远镜和显微镜的看法自然和人类的天性。拉姆齐夫人是被困在和高兴，在她的角色，作为妻子，母亲和主持人。内省拉姆齐先生是消耗了他的遗产，长期以来出版的抽象哲学。这是一本书，不能读或听到一些不太常见。 （ 1月）
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伍尔夫的美丽，如果低沉的， 1927年的小说共分为三部份。首先是一个现场一个大的，复杂的家庭对暑假前，伟大的抗日战争，他们的客人，他们的公务员，他们的财物，他们的生活方式，并推迟了一天来到这个遥远的灯塔，期盼的，由最小的孩子，詹姆斯。第二部分涉及所发生的事情接下来，他们和英格兰，以及最后的剩下的一些字，在现场的第一，为灯塔之旅，如此修改，从一个曾经有所期待的。规律的节奏，诗的阅读，使其与手腕，虽然她读的拉姆齐夫人可能不能满足每一个读者的概念，性质。 b.g. © audiofile 2002年，波特兰，缅因州-版权所有，波特兰，缅因州-这个文本是指以录音带版。
书中描述
受到这个不平凡的小说是日常生活的一个英语家庭中的赫布里。 "辐射作为[灯塔] ，是在其美容，有没有可能是一个错误设想：这里是一个崭新的，以最后程度严重和不妥协的。我认为这超越了对大自然非常现实的，它本身就是一个梦想的现实。 " 国度，从她的介绍。
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伍尔夫是其中一个最大的小说家的二十世纪，到灯塔也许是她的成就。故事的拉姆齐的家人和来宾参观他们的房子夏天在赫布里，伍尔夫？ -这个文本是指以数字版。
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小说伍尔芙，出版于1927年。工作是她的一个最成功，并获得实验流的意识风格。三节的这本书采取地方之间的1910年和1920年，并围绕各成员的家庭拉姆齐在探访他们的夏季官邸对马恩岛skye在苏格兰。中央题的小说之间的冲突，阴柔和阳刚的原则，在工作中的宇宙。与她的情感，诗意的心态，拉姆齐夫人代表了女性的原则，而拉姆齐，一个以自我为中心的哲学家，对男性原则，在理性的角度来看。两者都是有缺陷的，由他们有限的观点。画家和朋友的家庭，百合布里斯科，是伍尔夫的视野的双性艺术家，他们看待理想勾兑的男性和女性特质。她成功地完成一幅画，她一直致力于年初以来，小说是象征性的这种统一。 -这个文本是指以录音带版。
内瓣拷贝
其中一个最大的文学20世纪的重大成就和作者的最受欢迎的小说。宁静和产妇夫人拉姆塞，惨痛的，但荒谬的拉姆齐，连同他们的子女，以及各式客人是度假于马恩岛。从看似琐碎推迟访问附近的一个灯塔，伍尔夫构建了一个了不起的感人考试的复杂紧张局势和效忠对象的家庭生活，以及冲突之间的男性和女性的原则。
关于作者
弗吉尼亚伍尔夫出生于伦敦，在1882年。从1915年起，她保持着一项令人惊讶的产量小说，文学评论，散文和传记。她嫁给伦纳德伍尔夫和1917年，他们创立了新闻。她死于1941年。
-到灯塔|简介
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1927年出版的弗吉尼亚伍尔夫的到灯塔是一个里程碑，为作者和发展的小说在英国。这通常是由于她优秀的成绩，赢得了她大奖赛悠娴次年，并获得她的声誉，作为一个英国最重要的生活作家。它不仅是成功的关键，这是流行过，出售大量读者说，其中包含了广泛的社会阶层。由于伍尔夫去世于1941年，到灯塔有上升趋势的重要性，作为一个备受批评的关于性别问题，帝国和阶级。随着乔伊斯的尤利西斯，它仍然被被誉为是一个里程碑，在文学技巧。
复杂伍尔夫的写作到灯塔已成为几乎恐吓，作为建议，在著名的标题爱德华阿尔比的1962年起，谁害怕维吉尼亚伍尔夫？书面从多角度和移之间的时代特征与诗意的宽限期，小说关心的不是阴谋。相反，它描绘了一个口头了解该会的成员及其拉姆塞家人和朋友交流。在首节中，性格的夫人拉姆塞是透过镜头，其中大部分的观点集中，她的儿子的愿望去"到灯塔去" ，是组委会的动力来自哪影像形成的。在中部节中，灯塔站空洞作为叙事标志着时间的推移和死亡的许多特点。在第三和最后一节，与夫人拉姆齐死了，其余的家人和朋友，最后到达灯塔，与小说成为一种冥想爱情，丢失和创造性。
---威尔