Description

One of Woolf’s most challenging works, To the Lighthouse exemplifies her style and novelistic concerns. The passage of time is marked by the consciousness of her characters—an afternoon stretches across the majority of the novel, while a span of over ten years is consigned to relatively few pages. Almost the entirety of the novel occurs within her characters’ minds, with little dialogue between them. To the Lighthouse is Woolf’s most autobiographical fictional work, with its characters based on her own parents and siblings. It embodies her explorations of feminism and independence.