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To the lighthouse

Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941

Sound recording - 2005

At their second home on the Isle of Skye, the Ramsay family surrounds itself with friends and colleagues. They contend with World War I, family deaths, and hardships both spoken and unspoken. All the while, the lighthouse looms in the distance. Six-year-old James asks his father to take him there, but many years will pass before the voyage begins.

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Series
Recorded Books contemporary classics
Subjects
English > Scotland > Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Mothers > Death > Fiction.
Summer resorts > Fiction.
Married people > Fiction.
Lighthouses > Fiction.
Widowers > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Skye, Island of (Scotland) > Fiction.
Published
Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books p2005.
Language
English
Item Description
Title from container.
Unabridged recording of the book published in 1927.
Physical Description
7 compact discs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN
9781419386275
Main Author
Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941 (-)
Other Authors
Virginia Leishman (-)
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Starred Review. British actress Juliet Stevenson makes for a better reader of Woolf's words than Nicole Kidman's Oscar-winning turn as Woolf in The Hours. Stevenson carefully sorts through Woolf's famously tangled modernist masterpiece about the interior lives of a well-to-do British family, and the ways in which the First World War permanently damaged European society. She reads in an amplified hush, her exaggeratedly formal British diction adding poignancy to the sense of dislocation and disorder that marks the book's transition from pre- to postwar. Her reading is quietly, carefully precise, and that precision is a solid complement to Woolf's own measured, inward-looking prose. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved All rights reserved.

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