To The Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse is the story of a marriage and a childhood. It is a
lamentation of loss and grief for powerful, loved, dead parents,
which Virginia Woolf wanted to call an ‘elegy’ rather than a novel.
It is, less apparently, about the English class-structure and its radical
break with Victorianism after the First World War. It demonstrates
the urgent need for an art form which could, though with great
di.