Mrs. Dalloway. To the Lighthouse
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Mrs. Dalloway. To the Lighthouse
9.99 €
Clarissa Dalloway, a socialite in her fifties, is preparing for a reception she is organizing at her home. She goes out in the morning to get flowers, she loves them so much that she must decorate the house for the evening. Walking around London, she remembers her youth, her first love. In another London neighborhood, Septimus Warren Smith, a World War I veteran suffering from concussion, goes with his wife Lucretia to see a psychiatrist. Smith's day is intertwined with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives coming together as the party reaches its climax. After learning of the tragedy with Smith, Clarissa rethinks her life and her attitude toward death.
Virginia Woolf's masterful novel in which past, present and future merge into one momentous day in June 1923. "To the Lighthouse" is a categorically unusual book. Two days separated by a ten-year span of time. Depicted ideas, moods and spiritual experiences. A memory by which a larger life gradually and imperceptibly enters into this subtle and elegant novel. Such is Virginia Woolf's most famous work. In its pages the large Ramsey family, spending their summers on the Isle of Skye, dream of going to the lighthouse visible from their shore. Every day, Mrs. Ramsey reports that their father will take them there the next day. However, the trip keeps getting postponed and postponed. In describing this story, Wolfe has managed to draw a bizarre three-dimensional picture of human relationships and tell how and what women and men think while no one hears them.
Virginia Woolf's masterful novel in which past, present and future merge into one momentous day in June 1923. "To the Lighthouse" is a categorically unusual book. Two days separated by a ten-year span of time. Depicted ideas, moods and spiritual experiences. A memory by which a larger life gradually and imperceptibly enters into this subtle and elegant novel. Such is Virginia Woolf's most famous work. In its pages the large Ramsey family, spending their summers on the Isle of Skye, dream of going to the lighthouse visible from their shore. Every day, Mrs. Ramsey reports that their father will take them there the next day. However, the trip keeps getting postponed and postponed. In describing this story, Wolfe has managed to draw a bizarre three-dimensional picture of human relationships and tell how and what women and men think while no one hears them.
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