To the lighthouse
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Orient blackswan critical textsPublisher: Hyderabad Orient Black Swan 2020Description: vi,236p. ,PB 21x14cmISBN: 9789390122080Subject(s): English Criticism | English LiteratureDDC classification: 823.912 Summary: Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and one of the principal modernists of the last century. She won much acclaim for her novels: Mrs Dalloway and A Room Of One's Own. This novel follows the lives of the Ramsay household. One day, the son, James Ramsay, asks his parents whether they can visit the nearby lighthouse. His mother predicts that there will be good weather and that they should be able to do so. However, Mr. Ramsay contradicts this, replying that there may yet be a storm. The years pass and their trip to the lighthouse becomes a constantly postponed event in their lives. They come together once again after the great war and they have changed with time. Yet, their discussion of a trip to the lighthouse is the greatest sign of their change, and a philosophical reminder of a dream unfulfilled.Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book | St Aloysius College (Autonomous) | English | 823.912 WOOT (Browse shelf) | Checked out | 04/27/2024 | 075994 |
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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and one of the principal modernists of the last century. She won much acclaim for her novels: Mrs Dalloway and A Room Of One's Own. This novel follows the lives of the Ramsay household. One day, the son, James Ramsay, asks his parents whether they can visit the nearby lighthouse. His mother predicts that there will be good weather and that they should be able to do so. However, Mr. Ramsay contradicts this, replying that there may yet be a storm. The years pass and their trip to the lighthouse becomes a constantly postponed event in their lives. They come together once again after the great war and they have changed with time. Yet, their discussion of a trip to the lighthouse is the greatest sign of their change, and a philosophical reminder of a dream unfulfilled.
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