Classics · Literary
To the Lighthouse
A family and their guests spend a summer holiday in a house by the sea, where a small trip to a lighthouse is promised and then put off. A decade later, changed by loss, some of them return.
- First published
- 1927
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- short
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a short, beautifully written study of family, memory and how time quietly rearranges people.
Skip this if you want chapters of action or dialogue, since much of it unfolds inside people's heads.
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