具体描述
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life. One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth-century, To the Lighthouse is often cited as Virginia Woolf's most popular novel.
作者简介
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the center of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture.
In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). These first novels show the development of Virginia Woolf's distinctive and innovative narrative style. It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press with the publication of the co-authored Two Stories in 1917, hand-printed in the dining room of their house in Surrey.
Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs. Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay. This intense creative productivity was often matched by periods of mental illness, from which she had suffered since her mother's death in 1895. On 28 March 1941, a few months before the publication of her final novel, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf committed suicide.
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It is at once an ode to and an elegy for the moments in life–petty and great, exalting and saddening, of solidarity and solitude, of rage and rest. They fade away quickly, rightly, these meagre moments. But then they, too, stay and remain, in a modest way, for in such moments are stashed the fragments of eternity; the potent seeds of immortality.
每翻开这本书读,感觉自己的脉象非常乱
It is at once an ode to and an elegy for the moments in life–petty and great, exalting and saddening, of solidarity and solitude, of rage and rest. They fade away quickly, rightly, these meagre moments. But then they, too, stay and remain, in a modest way, for in such moments are stashed the fragments of eternity; the potent seeds of immortality.
It is at once an ode to and an elegy for the moments in life–petty and great, exalting and saddening, of solidarity and solitude, of rage and rest. They fade away quickly, rightly, these meagre moments. But then they, too, stay and remain, in a modest way, for in such moments are stashed the fragments of eternity; the potent seeds of immortality.