To the Lighthouse. Virginia Woolf

Described by Virginia Woolf herself as “undoubtedly my best book” and by her husband Leonard as “a masterpiece,” To the Lighthouse, first published in 1927, is a landmark in modernist literature. Set on the Isle of Skye over the course of a decade, the novel centers on the Ramsay family. A seemingly minor postponement of a walk to the nearby lighthouse becomes a poignant exploration of the intricacies of family life and the conflict between men and women.

In To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf is one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique to illuminate the inner worlds of her characters. Moving from character to character and year to year, the author paints a vivid portrait of a family while simultaneously musing on marriage, parenthood and childhood, war and art, love and cruelty, change and acceptance. Thanks to Woolf's brilliant style and her delicate approach to the intricacies of human relationships, the novel "To the Lighthouse" has earned the glory of one of the best novels of the 20th century and has not lost a drop of its depth to this day.