To the Lighthouse published in 1927, by Virginia Woolf. Set just before and after World War I, the story follows the lives of a small group of people (specifically Mr. Ramsay, Mrs. Ramsay, and Lily Briscoe) as they go through their daily lives, each facing and trying to overcome their own individual conflicts while on the Isle of Skye, Hebrides (a group of islands in the west of Scotland) holiday. But before I delve into this group of people and their struggles, I will first provide some context (also my presentation wasn't long enough). Author Virginia Woolf was born into an upper class English family in 1882 as Virginia Stephen and had three brothers and 4 half-siblings, for the first thirteen years of her life she and her family spent every summer at their summer home called Talland House , located in St. Ives, a seaside town, memories of this place eventually find their way into A The Lighthouse. Known as one of the most important modernist writers to date and famous for her non-linear writing style (when you write scenes and sections in non-chronological order), so it is to be expected that there are some key differences to what is typically present in a very structured novel like those of the Victorian era, as opposed to what is present in “To The Lighthouse”. For example, in this novel there is not really a protagonist, which is partly due to the anonymous narrator (who focuses on one character at a time) who often switches between the perceptions of one character and those of another, as demonstrated in my passage, the point of vision changes from that of Lily Briscoe to Charles Tansley. But the novel has main characters, Mr. Ramsay, Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe. An accomplished m... middle of paper ...... better like Mr. Ramsay) and is upset at the thought of one of these works ending up forgotten in an attic. His lack of confidence and resolve is gradually dispelled as we approach the end of the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes or doesn't mind reading metaphors, figurative language, and tangents. You may also want to have a fairly advanced vocabulary, otherwise you may find yourself in the same situation I was in, using the dictionary every 2-3 pages I read of the book. That said, this book is written in a wonderfully poetic and paced way; and it's the first novel I've read that managed to blend human thought and action so naturally. This concludes my review of the book. It's time for the next victim, I mean the host. (although that might be because it's the first novel I've read in the stream-of-consciousness genre).