“The proper stuff of fiction does not exist,” Woolf later wrote. That is the externality of the plot.”īut Woolf, and the modernists, professed to be less concerned with “externality” than with interiority. At the end some of them reach the lighthouse in a small boat. The novelist Arnold Bennett complained that, “A group of people plan to sail in a small boat to a lighthouse. The novel is written in the modernist style, of which Woolf was a pioneer, with little dialogue, subjective points of view, multiple narrators and one stretch of detached omniscient narration in the middle section. The second and third parts take place in 1920, ten years after Part One, ten years during which World War I has taken place and there have been many changes in the Ramsey family’s lives. The novel is presented in three sections, and takes place at the Ramsey family’s holiday home on the Scottish Isle of Skye. It was published in a run of 3000 copies by Hogarth Press, a publishing company set up and managed by Woolf and her husband Leonard, with a cover designed by her sister Vanessa Bell.
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, was published on May 5, 1927.
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