To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, To the Lighthouse, draws from her own life and experiences.Hailed as one of the greatest works of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's semi-autobiographical novel about the Ramsay family explores the themes of perspective, interpersonal relationships, and the complexity of human experience. Woolf's use of shifting points of view in the narrative highlights how each person sees and experiences events in their own way. As conflict and grief impact the Ramsays throughout their time on Scotland's Isle of Skye, the reader is pulled into Woolf's own life.