NovelModern · 1927Study guide · no full textDemanding

To the Lighthouse

Woolf writes consciousness as weather: thoughts moving through rooms. The middle section is the most quietly radical twenty pages in the modern novel.

Time Family Art & Imagination Memory

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“The great revelation perhaps never did come.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

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Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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